> I also noticed that the hard drive light blinks every second or so. Does
> win98 agressively swap to disk like windows NT does, even when it's not
> needed? At least for NT there was a magic registry hack to make it stop,
> which I don't see in '98. I'm wondering if this is the cause of the
> slowdown, though with an ATA hard drive the CPU usage should be
> minimal. Is there any way short of disabling virtual memory to make the
> constant swapping in '98 stop?
thats probably just CDROM polling to check for autoinsert. not enough
overhead to sweat (probably something like 0.1%)
-jrp
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