Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-18 Thread David Wilkinson
Jim Taylor wrote: Question: if you were me, would you format it as NTFS? Or just leave well alone and hope I do not want to copy files bigger than 4GB onto it. Good question, and I don't know the answer. Theoretically if you format NTFS and retest and performance is bad you can use the SD

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-15 Thread David Wilkinson
David Wilkinson wrote: I tested this card on my Windows 7 x64 desktop machine (using an external card reader) and got very similar results: --- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-15 Thread Jim Taylor
David Wilkinson wrote: David Wilkinson wrote: I tested this card on my Windows 7 x64 desktop machine (using an external card reader) and got very similar results: --- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-13 Thread David Wilkinson
Jim Taylor wrote: Yes, I think you have found the cause (actually I guess it's the source, the cause is still undetermined) of your performance problem. It would be interesting to test the card on Windows 7 or XP or another machine. In any case it's good to know that CrystalDiskMark runs on

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-12 Thread David Wilkinson
Jim Taylor wrote: I'm certainly no expert but suspect that disk speed may be a major issue. SeaMonkeys cache is in the profile along with cookies, history, bookmarks and all the other sqlite databases so it's going to be reading and writing it frequently. The advertized write speed for that card

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-12 Thread Jim Taylor
Snip David Wilkinson wrote: Hi Jim: So I finally got around to downloading CrystalDiskMark and testing my card. These are the results: Sequential Read : 16.70 MB/s Sequential Write : 11.37 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 16.41 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 0.433 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-06 Thread David Wilkinson
Michael Gordon wrote: The only conclusion I can come up with after reading your two comments is the path name is not the dame on your tablet. You say the D\ drive is on the SD card, that is not the same path as D:\ Your path name may be something like: F:\D:\ Where F: is the name of your SD

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Gordon
David Wilkinson wrote: Michael Gordon wrote: The only conclusion I can come up with after reading your two comments is the path name is not the dame on your tablet. You say the D\ drive is on the SD card, that is not the same path as D:\ Your path name may be something like: F:\D:\ Where F: is

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-05 Thread David Wilkinson
Michael Gordon wrote: I suggest you look at your own, working, profile folder. With a text editor open and read (only) your Prefs.js file. Look for entries that display a specific path name on your computer. Those paths may not exist on your tablet, that is why installing SM on the memory stick

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-05 Thread David Wilkinson
Jim Taylor wrote: I'm certainly no expert but suspect that disk speed may be a major issue. SeaMonkeys cache is in the profile along with cookies, history, bookmarks and all the other sqlite databases so it's going to be reading and writing it frequently. The advertized write speed for that card

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Gordon
David Wilkinson wrote: Michael Gordon wrote: I suggest you look at your own, working, profile folder. With a text editor open and read (only) your Prefs.js file. Look for entries that display a specific path name on your computer. Those paths may not exist on your tablet, that is why

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-05 Thread David Wilkinson
Michael Gordon wrote: I will check my profile, but actually this precisely is why I have my profile in the same location (D:\Mozilla\SM-2 Profiles) on all my machines. Yes, and that is why it works on your XP and Win-7 PCs, the file path is the same. Does your Tablet have the following

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Gordon
David Wilkinson wrote: Michael Gordon wrote: I will check my profile, but actually this precisely is why I have my profile in the same location (D:\Mozilla\SM-2 Profiles) on all my machines. Yes, and that is why it works on your XP and Win-7 PCs, the file path is the same. Does your Tablet

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-03 Thread David Wilkinson
Michael Gordon wrote: Long, long ago, before smart phones and tablets, or notebooks we were able to install SM on the memory stick that would be used with the mobile device (Acer Iconia W500 tablet). Installing on the memory stick allowed SM to create a default profile on the stick. Some of

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-03 Thread Michael Gordon
David Wilkinson wrote: Michael Gordon wrote: Long, long ago, before smart phones and tablets, or notebooks we were able to install SM on the memory stick that would be used with the mobile device (Acer Iconia W500 tablet). Installing on the memory stick allowed SM to create a default profile

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-03 Thread Rufus
Michael Gordon wrote: David Wilkinson wrote: I have an Acer Iconia W500 tablet on which I have installed Windows 8 Release Preview 32-bit (and previously the Developer Preview and Consumer Preview). This machine has a 32GB SSD drive, and I have added a 32GB SD card in the internal slot,

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-03 Thread Jim Taylor
David Wilkinson wrote: I have an Acer Iconia W500 tablet on which I have installed Windows 8 Release Preview 32-bit (and previously the Developer Preview and Consumer Preview). This machine has a 32GB SSD drive, and I have added a 32GB SD card in the internal slot, formatted as NTFS (drive D).

Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-02 Thread David Wilkinson
I have an Acer Iconia W500 tablet on which I have installed Windows 8 Release Preview 32-bit (and previously the Developer Preview and Consumer Preview). This machine has a 32GB SSD drive, and I have added a 32GB SD card in the internal slot, formatted as NTFS (drive D). When I put my

Re: Poor performance with profile on SD card

2012-06-02 Thread Michael Gordon
David Wilkinson wrote: I have an Acer Iconia W500 tablet on which I have installed Windows 8 Release Preview 32-bit (and previously the Developer Preview and Consumer Preview). This machine has a 32GB SSD drive, and I have added a 32GB SD card in the internal slot, formatted as NTFS (drive D).