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Article #430Re: Win 3.1 and SMARTDRV
From: Scott Evernden
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 13:58
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 13:58
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In article <1033@mavrick.UUCP> luis@mavrick.UUCP (luis basto) writes: > >Windows 3.1 replaced the old SMARTDRV.SYS with SMARTDRV.EXE which seems >to have more control on setting up a disk cache. However, when I run >CORETEST v2.8, the read/write speed is almost an order of magnitude slower >than when using the simpler SMARTDRV.SYS, almost to the point of having no >disk cache. YES!! In my tests using both CORETEST and SI, my disk speed were identical with and without SMARDRV 4.0. Some disk cache... Windows operates much worse without SMARTDRV. This is really annoying. My latest suspicion, knowing Microsoft, is that it kills SMARDRV when it sees QEMM386 as the mem manager, so my next test will be to try without QEMM. This is only one of several surprises w/ 3.1 -scott
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!scott From: scott@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Evernden) Subject: Re: Win 3.1 and SMARTDRV Message-ID: <1992Apr8.135832.1420@unixland.natick.ma.us> Keywords: windows 3.1 smartdrv Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix & Think_Tank BBS References: <1033@mavrick.UUCP> Distribution: na Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:58:32 GMT