Re: DE Frag that Drive.... De Frag it.

Post #68,456 by deSitter 12/12/02 4:55:11 PM Reply	Re: DE Frag that Drive.... De Frag it. Not fragged. Haven't done enough with it since installing to frag it. Too late in any case - after "that old NT feeling" returned, I speedily removed 2k. 2k runs fine on my Thinkpad, faster than 98 there. -drl
Post #68,458 by folkert 12/12/02 5:02:26 PM Reply	If you have run W2k for an hour... It can get as bad as 20-25% fragmented. It's just they WAY it does the SWAPFILE and the caching and the memory commits. Similarly with it just sitting there ... if any services are running that really don;t need to be... well more fragmentation due to logging anomalies. It does seem to FINALLY be better in XtraPain... `[link\|mailto:curley95@attbi.com\|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!]` Your friendly Geheime Staatspolizei reminds: [link\|http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.html\|Wi-Fi enabled device use] comes with an all inclusive free trip to the (county)Photographer! Overbooking, is a problem, please be prepared for "room-ies". Why You ask? Here is the answer to your query: `SELECT * FROM politicians WHERE iq > 40 OR \\ WHERE ego < 1048575; 0 rows found`
Post #68,464 by deSitter 12/12/02 5:21:44 PM Reply	Re: If you have run W2k for an hour... That is seriously FUed, and for that reason alone I wash my hands of W2KWS. Glad I made the right decision. Thanks GM! -drl
Post #68,502 by pwhysall 12/12/02 9:42:50 PM Reply	WTF? No way. I babysit ~200 Windows 2000 Pro boxen and THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN. Complaining that W2K Pro is slower than 98 or ME is like complaining that it's slower than DOS. Given that the filesystem drivers are the same in 2K and XP I can't see how this stuff would happen. "The way it does the swapfile and the caching and the memory commits" ? Er, "the way" is the way it was done in 2000. XP is cosmetic changes. Someone's blowing smoke around here, and it ain't me. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #68,515 by deSitter 12/12/02 10:19:52 PM Reply	Re: WTF? XP is the Windows winner of the 3.1 camp and the steal-from-OS/2 camp - it's like two executives in a big battle, and when the time comes for the Big Promotion, who shows up but some shifty MBA. In the course of time, over and over and over again I find myself on the side of the 3.1 camp - their stuff was/is simply better. I wish someone at Microsoft would read this. Windows NT and all its offspring are ultimately shit. I'll be moving our servers to Linux next year - other than the ball-and-chain Great Pains accounting. -drl
Post #68,585 by folkert 12/13/02 9:07:39 AM Reply	There are more than... Cosmetic differences... I have seen the Fragmentation Grenades on W2K happen in UNDER an hour of a Laptop being "built" and de-frag'd. I didn't say IT did it ALL of the time. Maybe I missed something, but the newer (slight)revision of the FS Driver in XP is a significant "selection criteria" difference from what W2K is. No, Memory Commits and Swapfile Management is not much if any difference in W2K as WXP, but it.. in combination with the "Slight" change in the FS driver for XP, it does make a difference. Now, as for your statements about smoke. I'm all out. `[link\|mailto:curley95@attbi.com\|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!]` Your friendly Geheime Staatspolizei reminds: [link\|http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.html\|Wi-Fi enabled device use] comes with an all inclusive free trip to the (county)Photographer! Overbooking, is a problem, please be prepared for "room-ies". Why You ask? Here is the answer to your query: `SELECT * FROM politicians WHERE iq > 40 OR \\ WHERE ego < 1048575; 0 rows found`

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