Yesterday evening I copied my win2_ (my default) to another location and
linked it to QPC2/SMSQE as WIN7_.
I deleted all files and directories with PWfiles. I then defragmented my
hard drive. Conversion to that empty win7_ took more than 23 minutes...
not much faster than before. Lack of space, fragmentation and swap file
can't be the reason why writing to a win device is so slow (imho).
Couldn't the design of the filing system of SMSQ itself be the cause?
I am not a native speaker ... so the above is perhaps not that
understandable.
Thanks for your contribution.
François Van Emelen
Op 5/08/2016 om 20:17 schreef RWAP Software:
'tIt could depend on a couple of things I should imagine:
a) Whether the win file is fragmented on your PC's hard disk
b) Whether the win file is full so each write it has to be extended
first to make room
c) The size of your swap file on the PC and how that is being used
(again that may be fragmented)
Rich
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Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com
On 2016-08-05 17:11, François Van Emelen wrote:
Hi,
Why is writing to WIN device so slow compared to writing to RAM and
DOS device?
Converting a 500KB DBF-file (dbase3/foxbase) DBS-file from dos1_
1) to RAM1_ less than 15 sec.
2) to DOS1_ less than 20 sec.
3) to WIN2_ more than 25 MINUTES
Why such a huge difference?
François Van Emelen
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