emb978@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm) (02/12/90)
I neglected to include some pertinent information in my previous post. My hard disk is a 160 MB 16.5 MS ESDI Microscience 2160. It is split into five logical drives (c-f == 32 MB, g == 20MB). The controller is a Western Digital WD1007A-WA2 with a 32KB cache built into the controller card. Buffers is currently 20, files=40. I do a lot of compilation (usually move the code to the ramdisk and compile there). Edit small files (< 64KB), use some database stuff with a large file (around 400 KB). I also use Windows 386 (but I changed the config.sys to use buffers=10, smartdrv uses 384KB). In the future, I envision using something like MUSH or PC-MAIL and possibly Desqview. I also do a lot of telecommunications. I have had suggestions to try different configurations, which I have done to a small extent. I am looking for ways to more rigorously measure performance changes than something like "X *seems* slower" or "Y *seems* faster". In other words, an objective way to measure the changes. -- Eric M. Boehm EMB978@leah.Albany.EDU EMB978@ALBNYVMS.BITNET