From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun Apr 05 1998 - 17:12:13 EDT
On Sun, 5 Apr 98 07:53:28 EDT, Robert Dewar wrote:
>This seems a bit off topic for TP, but I am reporting OS/2 performance
>on TP, so I guess it is OK :-)
>
>I just want to note that HPFS386 makes a HUGE difference to performance
>on a machine with decent memory (I have 140 megs and use a 50 meg disk
>cache). It's night and day. FOr example, linking the compiler I am working
>on (GNAT, an Ada 95 compiler with a very nice OS/2 port), used to take
>90 seconds with HPFS and a maximum sized cache. It now takes 4 seconds.
>
So, should I change the IFS line in my CONFIG.SYS to what it says on my Warp
Server machine (I've already had HPFS386 in a directory here)?
How much memory is enough to see a noticable difference? I have 24 MB on
both servers, and this ThinkPad.
Thanks.
-- Paul Khoury <pkhoury_at_loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 5 There are 22 Processes with 85 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 7h 15m 37s 765ms.
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