On 9/2/05, Paul Van Noord wrote: > Seems to me you have hardware problems such as too little available > RAM, slow hard drive, etc. If you are using a notebook with a 4200 rpm > hard drive and/or you have little _available_ RAM you are going to > have slow searches. Also, there may be limitations with your processor > functions if you have implemented various battery power saving > techniques. The status bar in Task Manager shows available RAM and the > Processes tab shows how you are using yours. If you have more that > 30-40 processes running with high memory usage welcome to the world of > slow and unstable searches.
Thanks, but you are way off the mark. I have tested this on three different machines, all with plenty of available RAM, fast hard drive, etc. Nothing you mention can explain why the same search runs smoothly and fast in non-OTFE and hangs endlessly in OTFE. In each of my experiments on three different machines, it is the same directory that I am searching on the same machine. The only difference is OTFE versus non-OTFE. OTFE is supposed to run with little or no discernible slow-down in performance. At least that is how it is advertised, and that is the only way it could sell. But that is not what I got. The OTFE search is not just a little bit slower - it is often 1,000 times slower (if it completes at all). -- jaywalker Windows XP Pro SP2 and The Bat! Pro (No OTFE) 3.60.07 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.61.02 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
