🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <$vdb2EAl4qJzEwZB@lewisw.demon.co.uk>, Bill Lewis
<bill@lewisw.demon.co.uk> writes

>As much as I hate to disagree with someone so knowledgable in so many
>differing areas, may I point out that NT4 Server and Workstation can be
>so buggered up after the initial install that Microsoft will often
>suggest an O/S reinstall before working on a problem.

:)

Well, it saves them having to diagnose a problem over the phone !


>As much as I hate to disagree with someone so knowledgable in so many
>differing areas, may I point out my post in this thread giving CPU and
>MEM usage figures for a NT4 Server during D/L with Turnpike Connect.

You may, none the less the d.i.s.turnpike, many people have made the
observation that cpu usage is reported at 100% while Turnpike is runing.
This is quite normal and no cause for concern.


>As much as I hate to disagree with someone so knowledgable in so many
>differing areas, so I will not because we do agree on raising the size
>of the pagefile, this however should be done with some caution as a
>larger pagfile will impact on performance due to the increased disk
>access for administration of the pagefile and larger pagefiles increase
>paging time.

I agree that there may be a problem if the page file fragments badly.
Ignoring the effect of fragmentation I don't see why having a big page
file should decrease performance unless you're thinking of bigger seek
overheads ?


Cheers, J/.
-- 
John Beardmore