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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:30:44 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Tweaking FAT32.IFS to Boost Performance

In <20050321000211.64571.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com>, on 03/20/05
at 04:02 PM, "John A. Morrow, Jr." said:

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

FWIW, the yahoo group is not the best place to get eCS support. You may
get your question answered, but its charter is to be a general discussion
group. That said, it does not sound like your problem is eCS specific.

>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 you sure you are running the latest fat32 ifs and fm/2 drops?

>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

While it's possible you need to tweak the fat32 ifs settings, this is
better asked on the fat32 user yahoo group.

Since you are copying to a fat32 file system, the problem could be related
to your fm/2 settings. RMB on the fat32 drive in the drive tree. Select
Edit -> Drive Flags and turn off the options that don't apply. Turning
off the EA related options for file systems that do not support EAs will
improve performance. It's also useful for preventing EAs from propagating
to file systems where you really don't need them.

I do not think the file size is an issue. Fm/2 does not cache the file
content in memory and I doubt you have enough files in the directory tree
to be a concern.

Regards,

Steven

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