From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 13:00:05 EDT
severel possible causes..
among these are:
1. bad app.. see memory leak comment from david..
2. file fragmentation..
3. some other "app" is hogging cpu time..
4. disk full..
5. a worm is sending the KLEZ worm out to your entire e-mail address book..
what i would do FIRST is open task manager and see what is hogging the cpu
time..
and
take a look at the traffic on my connection to the internet..
then check free space..
see what the swap file is doing..
you did not say which version of windoze you're using.. :-)
so many places to look, so few hours in the day..!
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Reid" <dwreid_at_hiwaay.net>
To: "'Erich R. Knobil'" <eknobil_at_megsinet.net>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:17 PM
Subject: RE: [T20/T21] Slow file access
> Erich,
>
> I've experienced this but only after many hours of running several open
> programs with one a known memory leak in it.
>
> SO far all I've been able to do is reboot and it clears up. Im sure
> someone has some other suggestions, it might be something in your
> autoexec.bat file if you are using it at boot
>
> dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erich R. Knobil [mailto:eknobil_at_megsinet.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:52 AM
> To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: [T20/T21] Slow file access
>
>
> When I open a folder in Windows Explorer on my T20, it can sometimes
> take as much as 3-5 seconds for the pane on the right to show the files.
> I guess I got used to it, since it's not a crippling problem, but I was
> amazed at how much faster the T21 did this. Even with all the same
> files loaded on it, the T21 seemed todo this with no delay at all.
>
> Does anyone know the real source of the difference? The processor speed
> is only a little faster (900 vs 700), so I assume that isn't it. If
> it's clearly the drive itself (15GB vs 30GB), then someday I would be
> game to invest in a faster drive, but I would not want to do that and
> find it didn't fix the problem. If it's some software or setting, I
> would be delighted. TIA for any answers or hints!
>
> -- Erich
>
>
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