Re: [Thinkpad] Maintenance sw and SLOW loading of data files in various apps

Hello,

OOPS! Disregard my previous message about the virtual memory swap file.
I thought by VM you meant VMWare images (we use lots of them at work).

Does your system actually use most of the 4GB of swap space on disk volume D:?

If not, you might want to resize it to 2GB and grow the C: disk volume by 2GB.
This will give it more room for the temporary file and temporary Internet file
folders.

You could also try formatting the swap volume as FAT16 with 64KB clusters. FAT
file system performance under NT-derived operating systems (NT 4.0, 2000, XP,
et cetera) seems very good, and memory paging is typically done in 64KB pages,
so maybe this will provide better performance for the swap file.

One thing I have noted is that some anti-virus programs greatly slow down a
system when performing on-disk access scanning and the user runs an application
which creates a lot of temporary folders and/or files. You may wish to try
disconnecting your network connection (for safety purposes) and then
uninstalling
your anti-virus software and seeing if performance improves. Keep in mind that
some anti-virus programs don't install cleanly and you may have to download a
"manual uninstall" tool from the vendor's web site first to remove it from the
system, even if you did uninstall it using the vendor's uninstall applet or
through the Add/Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

At 10:00 AM 10/1/2006, you wrote:

>Message: 1
>Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:53:30 -0400
>From: Frank K-F <ferko@attglobal.net>
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Maintenance sw and SLOW loading of data files
> in various apps
>To: Rob Bell <RobDBell@mailworks.org>
>Cc: thinkpad@stderr.org
>Message-ID: <451F3BBA.5000503@attglobal.net>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
>Paul, Matt, Ray, Michael, Rob, et alia..
>
>thanks for your inputs and suggestions. This is what I have before I
>read your msgs:
>
>-- Both HDDs are 7200 RPM.
>-- ALL my partitions are NTFS .. except the IBM-Service which is FAT32.
>-- My Swap File (should be in my D partition 4038MB.. sometimes reverts
>to C) was now in C at 2048MB (2GB memory .. and all is available) .. and
>now re-directed back to D.
>-- Under Device Manager .. IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers .. have two
>instances of "Primary IDE Channel", both reporting "Auto Detection" /
>"DMA if available" / Ultra DMA Mode 5A .. for Device "0" and "1".
>-- Norton has not reported any infections .. have weekly total scans,
>and I am not aware of any new silent installs (BTW how does one hunt for
>these?).
>
>Frank K-F
>========
>
>To test .. I started my AutoCAD and loaded a 19MB file ... took about
>2.5 minutes, by my guesstimate up to twice as long as it should.

[...snip...]

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Received on Mon Oct 2 05:03:18 2006