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Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 2003 19:10:56 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Long Boot up Time

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In <3E2A109B.9C78D2B5@attglobal.net>, on 01/18/03
at 06:42 PM, Harry Chris Motin said:

> IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:4 /AuToChEcK:CDEFG

I suggest you bump the CRECL to:

IFS=F:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:64 /AUTOCHECK:CDEFG

I've run with setting for a very long time along with:

CACHE.EXE /MAXAGE:7500 /DISKIDLE:6000 /BUFFERIDLE:3000

and have never lost the contents of a drive.

>The problem is that the system is spending a lot of time autochecking the
>D, E, F and G partitions for being dirty. My system is as follows:

HPFS.IFS should not be autochecking anything unless you have a dirty
shutdown. If that was the case you would see the chkdsk display and you
didn't state that this was occurring. What's probably happening is that
since the partition is in the autocheck list, HPFS.IFS initializes its
per-partition in-memory data structures when the .IFS loads. This
initialization is normally done on first access to the partition.

>1. First Drive: 73.6GB
> C: 8001MB
> E: 30,008MB
> F: 30,004MB
> G: 2016MB

> Second Drive: D: 73.6GB

These are big drives with big partitions. It's going to take some time
for HPFS.IFS to initialize its in-memory data structures, but your times
seem excessive. Are Dani's drivers running at maximum performance
settings?

>With the above CONFIG.SYS command, my system takes 10 minutes to boot. If
>I change it to:

> IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:4 /AuToChEcK:CEFG

>it takes about 7 minutes. If I change it to:

> IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:4 /AuToChEcK:C

>it takes 3 minutes.

This is consistent with my idea that there is significant intiialization
done on first access to the drive.

Steven

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