Gabriel Sechan wrote:
> Why?  I find I never search files-  I know where I keep my stuff.

You must not have much stuff.

> ???  Heavy disk usage can grind a single app to a halt, but other apps on 
> the system tend to be unaffected.  Unless they too need to get files from 
> disk, in which case what do you expect?  But I have frequently run CPU 
> intensive and IO intensive programs on the same box with no problem.  Thats 
> the whole point of a multitasking OS.
>   

We need to start designing our system with more and smaller spindles.
The only thing my computers really needs besides more network bandwidth
is disk bandwidth. RAM, CPU, hard disk capacity I have plenty of.

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Tracy R Reed
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