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Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:02:13 PST8
From:	"John A. Morrow, Jr." <ja_morrow@yahoo.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	SCOUG-Help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Tweaking FAT32.IFS to Boost Performance

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(Note: I posted this to the eComStation Yahoo group over an hour
ago, but so far it hasn't even been mailed out!)

Hello!

Due to a virus, I have recently had to reinstall Winblows 2000
on the C: (primary, NTFS) partition of this machine. Prior to
doing so, I backed up some directories by the simple expedient
of dragging them from the shared, D: (FAT32, logical), to my K:
(logical, JFS), partition. The directories copied over slower
than I would like but, tolerable.

Now Win2k is reinstalled, I deleted and recreated the D:
partition to make it larger, and I am trying to drag the
directories back onto it. I have been able to do this, albeit
slowly, with all the directories except Macromedia, which is
76MB in size. I only have 128MB of RAM on this "legacy" system,
which may be part of the problem. When trying to copy Macromedia
(using FM/2) back over to D:, it part of the files get copied
then the CPU pegs at 97 to 99 percent, and copying slows to a
crawl. Available memory stays in the 30 to 40 MB range.

Are there some settings I could change to prevent this logjam
and boost performance? I have eCS 1.2 on a K6-450 system. The
relevant lines of CONFIG.SYS, are the default from the eCS
installer:

IFS=M:\OS2\JFS.IFS /LW:5,20,4 /AUTOCHECK:*
IFS=M:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:*
IFS=M:\OS2\BOOT\FAT32.IFS /CACHE:2048 /Q
CALL=M:\OS2\CACHEF32.EXE /S

TIA,
John Morrow
Templeton California

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