markv@hls.com (05/24/91)
In article <colfelt.674977066@tramp.Colorado.EDU>, colfelt@news.colorado.edu (COLFELT ANDREW BRINTON W) writes: > john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) writes: > >>I've had more success with SmartDrv than the PC-TOOLS disk cache. I >>switched to PC-TOOLS a few weeks ago (and made some other changes at >>the same time) and Windows went *BOOM* quite a lot. Now it's only >>sometimes :-) > > In response to my own question regarding the Norton Cache vs. SmartDrv, > I did some experimenting. > So did I. I've set up the cache do perform readaheads, delayed writes and some other sizing params. It does work well, as far as disk caching is concerned - there are operations now that don't access the disk at all after the first pass- like loading W4W! ( I do have 8 Megs, 2 assigned to the cache ) However, there is a problem - Windows crashes more frequently. This is probably due to my set up, which includes running Novell alongside TCP/IP. If I ommit TCP/IP, things are slightly more stable, perhaps. There seems to be no pattern to the crashes, but they are different from 'normal' UAE in that the UAE never comes up, or only a blank box appears at the position and size of a UAE - no content, border or anything. The realy weird thing is that it feels like an intermittent problem - I reboot, load the network stuff, start windows - boom. Reboot etc.. and windows works ... for a while, then boom. Reboot etc, and windows stays up all day- or not. So how do you get intermittent problems with software??? That is the state at this time. I'm persisting using NCACHE-F, as the performance is radically better, and hopefully over time my problem will fade... -- Mark van der Pol | "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty" markv@hls.com |Vroom Vrondel, spokesman for the association of Sages, Illum- (415 966 7486) |inaries, Philosophers and other professional thinking persons