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evrwrite@powergrid.electriciti.com (Ed Redondo) wrote:

>In article <4h05qp$48p@allinux2.alliance.net>,
>   sda19@mail.alliance.net (Steve Davis) wrote:
>>In article <NEWTNews.824709312.14041.dadkins@dadkins.ianet.net>, David 
>Adkins <dadkins@mail.ianet.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Bob I was just getting ready to ask the same question. I
>>>have noticed the same thing since I upgraded from Windows 3.11
>>>to Windows 95.
>>>However I have noticed it only while the computer is idle.
>>>Must be some way to increase sales of HDs after wearing them out!
>>>
>>>If anybody knows the real reason, I'd be interested to know.
>>
>>I didn't catch the first post but I can imagine what the question is.  
>>Your doing nothing but staring at the girlie picture you just 
>>downloaded and all of a sudden the HD light starts flickering - your 
>>not even touching the thing let alone DL'ing anything.
>>
>>The answer is called PREPAGING - during idle periods Win 95 decides to 
>>start writing memory contents to the HD into the swap file - now mind 
>>you the stuff is *still* in the memory - 95 just does it so the the 
>>contents are already paged out to virtual memory should you call upon 
>>95 to divey up some more of this virtual stuff.
>>
>>It's designed to increase performance but it seems a nusence.  Good 
>>news is that if you have over 16 meg of memory it just about 
>>disappears - that is until you start loading the system up withh all 
>>kinds of apps, even in this day and age a lot of people still don't 
>>do this in ernest.

>Another way to improve performance (less HD access for virtual memory 
>purposes), make your Virtual Memory Max & Min sizes the same value.  This 
>value should be 1.5 * RAM if you have the disk space.  Making max=min stops 
>the unnecessary resizing of the swap file.

What the hell is "prepaging"?!  If you want to stop the flicker, you
can do it by selecting Control Panel/System/Performance/File
System/Troubleshooting/Disable write-behind caching for all drives.
Remember, though, that while it will stop the caching, it will
dramatically reduce performance of your machine.


































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