🚀 go-pugleaf

I neglected to include some pertinent information in my previous post.
My hard disk is a 160 MB 16.5 MS ESDI Microscience 2160. It is split
into five logical drives (c-f == 32 MB, g == 20MB). The controller is a
Western Digital WD1007A-WA2 with a 32KB cache built into the controller
card. 

Buffers is currently 20, files=40. I do a lot of compilation (usually
move the code to the ramdisk and compile there). Edit small files (<
64KB), use some database stuff with a large file (around 400 KB). I also
use Windows 386 (but I changed the config.sys to use buffers=10,
smartdrv uses 384KB). In the future, I envision using something like
MUSH or PC-MAIL and possibly Desqview. I also do a lot of
telecommunications.

I have had suggestions to try different configurations, which I have
done to a small extent. I am looking for ways to more rigorously measure
performance changes than something like "X *seems* slower" or "Y *seems*
faster". In other words, an objective way to measure the changes.

-- 
Eric M. Boehm
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