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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (3284)	10/29/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: peter michaelson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Howard: Do you mean to say that, in general, CD-ROM performance is worse if connected as a slave to IDE 1 than if it is on IDE2 by itself. If so, is this true only when files are copied to the maser drive on IDE1 or does it also apply in games and such when, I think, files are read directly into RAM. Or were you talking a bout something else entirely? thanks, peter

To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (3284)	10/29/1998 11:44:00 AM
From: pae	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>If you are doing disk to disk transfers or running multiple programs which save data to your two hard when trading. I believe I am: my main app (for the moment) is tradestation which is a memory pig. As I open workspaces/pages, TS consumes memory at a prodigious rate. I was thinking that by putting the OS on IDE1:HD3.2, I would have the swapfile on IDE1 and the application and data on IDE2:HD7.6. So if I loaded that marginal page that caused massive swapping I would have the OS swapping to IDE1 while the app read from IDE2. Speed with the markets open is hugely more important than speed while installing software during the off hours. If my CD is idle 9:30 to 4, am I degrade free during the trading day? Is my take on WinNT swap activity valid? Of course I am also installing 256mg of memory. Perhaps I should just disable swapping? <g> Thank you, Paul