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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:15:43 -0700
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From: Preston Petty <presp AT earthlink DOT net>
Subject: Re: Optimising disk access in DRDOS
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A few years ago (last time I tested) the fastest hd caching was
Hyperdisk (http://www.hyperware.com/speedkit.html)
It was significantly faster than anything else I tested.
Its shareware, so your only cost to test it is your time.
Pres
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At 10:19 AM 4/30/00 MDT, you wrote:
>How can I improve the speed of disk read operations in DRDOS,
>specifically long file reads and searches?
>
>I have 96MB of memory, so a larger disk cache was the first obvious step.
>NWcache seems to max out at 7MB, I found smartdrv to be faster, anyhow.
>Going above 8MB in smartdrv doesn't seem to give much performance increase.
>
>Are there any other decent disk caches?
>
>In config.sys, I have:
>
>HIBUFFERS=30
>HIFILES=60
>HIFCBS=4,4
>
>Increasing the number of FCBS is something I'll try later on, but since this
>seems to be related to searches and locked files, I'm not sure it will help
>much.
>
>Having seen how fluidly the my program runs when compiled for Linux, or even
>the DOS version run in Windows 95, I'm a bit concerned about how slow it is
>running under DRDOS.
>
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