rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) (04/02/91)
racine@yunexus.yorku.ca (Jeff Racine) writes: >I have a 386 with 4MB of RAM. I run Desqview386 and use PCKWIK's disk >cache program. >Recently I uploaded PCMAG's ansi.com (replacement for ansi.sys) to try >out. However, when I ran it in a Desqview window, the strangest thing >happened: my disk access went through the roof. I ran the benchmark >program that came with PCKWIK, and disk access was a fast in the >window (nearly) as it was without Desqview. >2) Has anybody else noticed this? I run a 386-33 with 4Mb under QEMM 5.11 and DV 2.31, and disk access in a window is within 10% of the speed of disk access outside of DV (about 900Kb/sec and about 960Kb/sec, respectively, without PCKWIK, and about 5500Kb/sec and 6000Kb/sec, respectively, with a 1Mb PCKWIK cache -- all measurements made by CoreTest). So my answer to your question 2. is that I have not had the problem you describe. However, I do see a peculiar PCKWIK behaviour in DV. When PCKWIK is loaded with the /Q+ switch, which enables return of the prompt before disk activity is completed, this feature works perfectly, but not in a DESQview window. Anybody have an explanation of this? //richard
chao@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Chia-Chi Chao) (04/06/91)
In article <22199@yunexus.YorkU.CA> rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes: >However, I do see a peculiar PCKWIK behaviour in DV. When PCKWIK is >loaded with the /Q+ switch, which enables return of the prompt before >disk activity is completed, this feature works perfectly, but not in a >DESQview window. Anybody have an explanation of this? Here is the feedback from Multisoft: "As to the Q switch in DV, Superpck makes some internal adjustments to itself when it detects DesqView loading. As a result of these, O+ and Q+ are turned off." Multisoft on CompuServe can be reached at 76004.151@compuserve.com. -- Chia-Chi Chao chao@cs.ucla.edu ..!ucbvax!cs.ucla.edu!chao