Re: [Thinkpad] Re: Windows & H/D Defragging

That's a good point about the Temporary Internet Files.

IE's default size for that is 10% of disk space. That's about 250 Meg on
my machine.
I reduce that to 5 Meg and things tend to run a little faster.
I *think* that's because I happen to have an internet connection that's net
faster than searching through the temp files.
For the curious, I have an asymmetric DSL line at 640k down and 64k up.
After firewall overhead, stop and start bits and whatever other overhead
there is, I get a net of about 535kbps down.

Yours truly,
Bob Meizlik
President
Squak Mountain Consulting, Inc.
206-605-5558
bob@squakmt.com
www.squakmt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aryeh Goretsky" <goretsky@adelphia.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Cc: "John Levanger" <levanger@comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 6:27 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Re: Windows & H/D Defragging

> Hello,
>
> I would imagine that web surfing fills the Temporary Internet Files
> directory (usually found beneath the %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\
> directory) with many small files and subdirectories just from viewing
> web pages. Given the amount of web pages one can visit in just a day
> I can understand why there might be reports of "excessive" disk
> fragmentation.
>
> I have wondered about the performance of disk defragmentation software
> myself, especially under file systems like NTFS.
>
> As I understand it, defragmentation just refers to a process of taking
> files stored in noncontiguous clusters and moving the files around on
> the disk until the files' clusters are in order next to each other.
> For example, if you had a file which contained three clusters of data,
> with the first cluster being at the beginning of the disk, the second
> in the middle of the disk, and the third at the end, after defragmentation
> the first, second and third clusters would be right next to each other.
>
> With a nearly full volume, you might have to perform several successive
> runs of the disk defragmentation software in order to get all the files
> defragmented, just because the disk defragmentation software had to have
> enough free space available on the disk to temporarily store all the
> clusters it was moving around.
>
> Back in the ancient days of DOS, disk defragmentation software for FAT-
> formatted disks not only defragmented files but "packed" them as well,
> which moved all the files to the beginning of the hard disk so they could
> be accessed more quickly.
>
> Later, disk defragmentation software appeared which further "optimized"
> the packing by placing the operating system files at the beginning of the
> disk for even further speed increases when loading DOS and Windows.
>
> At least, that's how I seem to recall disk defragmentation programs
> working under DOS.
>
> Like you, I am very curious to know how much of this still holds true
> with modern file systems.
>
> To answer your question, though, I would suspect Executive Software's
> Diskeeper 7.0 performs a more thorough disk defragmentation. The
> reason being that the disk defragmentation software included within
> Microsoft Windows XP is a stripped-down version of Executive Software's
> Diskeeper. It works fine, but probably not as good as the version they
> can sell for additional money.
>
> Regards,
>
> Aryeh Goretsky
>
> At 07:54 AM 5/1/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Message: 3
> >Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 04:20:36 -0400
> >From: John Levanger <levanger@comcast.net>
> >To: Thinkpad Forum <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> >Subject: [Thinkpad] Windows & H/D Defragging
> >
> >Is it normal for Windows XP to become heavily fragmented (on the H/D)
after
> >just a day or two of light use? I'm running Diskeeper 7.0 as my default
disk
> >defrag utility on my 600X and after just a day or two of web surfing, it
> >claims that the disk is heavily fragmented and needs to be defragged.
Also,
> >do different defrag utilities perform the defrag procedure in different
> >ways? Seems Windows wants to put files and directories in differents
> >locations on the hard drive than Diskeeper does. Is one better than the
> >other? Thanks in advance.
> >
> >John Levanger
> >Savannah, Georgia
> >"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men
stand
> >ready to do violence on their behalf."
>
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