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Skriven 2006-06-16 19:57:45 av Herbert Rosenau (2:2476/493)
    Kommentar till text 150 av Mike Powell (1:2320/105.0)
Ärende: Speeding Up OS/2 on a Slow PC
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Am 15.06.06 20:30 schrieb Mike Powell

 MP> | A trick I learned from Linux is to have the swap file in its
 MP> own separate | partition. | The thing is usually on the C: drive
 MP> and if the C: drive fills up OS/2 (and | Windows) | becomes, uh,
 MP> unpredictable.  Don't know if that'll make your system faster, |
 MP> but it | will make it *safer*.
 MP> +-[BA=>MP]

 MP> I was thinking along similar lines.  The swap file is now on its
 MP> own, separate partition, and I even set it up with parameters
 MP> similar to what one might do with linux (RAM x 2).  That appears
 MP> so far to be overkill, but... ;-)

The formula for setting up the swapper on OS/2 is
- use the least used pohysical drive but theron the most used partiton to get
best performance in swapping.
- As the system triggers the size of swapper.dat magically you would get
  best performance in size by try a complete run of your dayly job.
  Then, while you are working hard do a look at the size of swapper.dat
  This will be the most significant startup value you cang give it.
- to increase performance in swapping the most significant amount you ever can
do is:
  put more RAM in. Then put more RAM in again and at least put more RAM in.
  RAM is cheap today, so whenever you have a gowing swapper the easiest is
  to put in more RAM.

Don't use a separate logical drive when there is another drive on the same
physical disk that gets accessed. You will shrink down any performance to the
worsest possible.

I run 1GB RAM on my most important mashines and have never seen free RAM
shrinking significantly under 500 MB since years, even with seamonkey (WEB),
seamonkey (email), pronews (news), PMView, OpenOffice 1.1.5 active with
multiple documents open in parallel.


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