Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 13:40:12 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Slow disk (was: Complaints about DJGPP)
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On 23 May 1997, Esa A E Peuha wrote:

> I have an old 40MB hard disk attached to my Pentium motherboard. With
> this combination, it takes some 30 seconds to compile a "Hello world"
> program. (I have set up 3MB RAM disk and 4MB disk cache, as the FAQ tells.)

What happens if you invoke the same compilation once again immediately
after the first one exits?  How much time does it take then?  If it
isn't significantly faster (because files come from the disk cache,
i.e. from memory), then I'd say you have some configuration problem
that is unrelated to the disk.  If it *is* much faster, make the disk
cache larger (like 8MB) even if you have to uninstall the RAM disk for
this, and make the cache be write-back.