On 24 Aug 2004 at 1:16, Owain Sutton wrote:
[quoting me, unattributed:]
A small toll, one that is worth defragmenting every month or so or
after any major churning of your drive (such as an OS upgrade).
Also, one thing that makes a huge difference is how you partition
your drives. If you
On 21 Aug 2004 at 16:44, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
So, no RAM disk in 10.3 and up. Maybe Coda can be persuaded to just
store the damn temp files in memory, already, like every other
modern application?
Um, thats not true. Adobe, Microsoft, almost everything I can
You know, I read an article about comparing NTFS (windows file format)
and HFS+ (OS X format).
Disk Caching is important, but there are other things to consider as
well. Fragmentation is a big issue. I know my Windows XP machine has to
get defragmented every couple of days, but it is not an
David W. Fenton wrote:
. . . Fragmentation is a big issue. . . .
Not even close to being as important as disk caching, since it only
matters on initial read of the file, and really only matters with
large files.
. . . I know my
Windows XP machine has to get defragmented every couple of
On 23 Aug 2004 at 16:46, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
. . . Fragmentation is a big issue. . . .
Not even close to being as important as disk caching, since it only
matters on initial read of the file, and really only matters with
large files.
. . . I know my
Windows
A small toll, one that is worth defragmenting every month or so or
after any major churning of your drive (such as an OS upgrade). Also,
one thing that makes a huge difference is how you partition your
drives. If you have a single drive partition for OS and for programs
and for data, then
David W. Fenton wrote:
You have something wrong with your machine that is not common on
other machines. At least, I've never seen anything like what you
describe. Ever. On literally dozens of machines that I'm responsible
for.
Funny, I see it all the time. And I see a improvements after
Okay -- here's my report:
RAMbunctious doesn't work in Panther.
http://www.clarkwoodsoftware.com/rambunctious/rambacc.html
They say they are working on it, but there hasn't been an update to
RAMbunctious since 2002.
There is no alternative RAM disk software.
So, no RAM disk in 10.3 and up.
Hi Randolph,
Thanks for the link -- I stand corrected. Good to know there's
something out there besides RAMbunctious.
However, I don't think I'm going to bother trying it. Your experience
matches mine -- RAM disks in OS X just slow things down.
- Darcy
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On
In a message dated 8/21/04 6:03:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is no alternative RAM disk software.
There is this one - been using it for a while with the results I expect. Can't say one way or another if it improves Finale's performance. I don't think, however, that it works against
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