From: "Matthias Paul" <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Organization:  Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:07:00 +0100
Subject:       Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 Mark at Cross+Road's <mark1 AT mich DOT com> wrote:

> *Isn't according to this configuration the verify disabled?

Yes, VERIFY is disabled in Patrick's configuration, so this does 
not apply to his configuration. But I usually try to give hints 
for all list members, that's why I often reply in a more general way.

> Or is there another choice for verify other than being "off" to 
> disable it?

No. (However, internally there are difference between the /V
verify switch provided by some of the external tools, and the 
internal VERIFY command, but that's a different story. I was 
speaking of the VERIFY command, that effects NWCACHE.)

> I've used lend-=on and verify on both together.  
> Do you also indicate that this does slow the system when both
> being used together or just the delay with the verify?

The hint on verify is independent of the NWCACHE options.
When verify is enabled, NWCACHE cannot defer any writes,
that is, it writes through (even if NWCACHE /S shows differently).
Try VERIFY OFF and you should see a big gain in performance
of the disk I/O system, when you also use /DELAY=something.

 Matthias
 
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