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Subject: Re: EGTB Initialization

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 05:18:04 01/31/02

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On January 31, 2002 at 08:05:35, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On January 31, 2002 at 07:59:11, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>How long does it take on your computer to initialize EGTB's? I am not talking
>>about any stuff that you might do yourself. I am talking about the call to
>>Eugene's IInitializeTb() function. On my portable with a slow 4500 RPM disk that
>>is probably heavily fragmented fragmented, it takes 25 seconds(!) with 3-4-5
>>piece TB's. This machine is a 1133 MHz Mobile P-III. How long does it take on a
>>"normal" modern machine with a 7200 RPM disk on a non-fragmented disk?
>>
>>/David
>
>The more important question is, why are you enduring a disk that "is probably
>heavily fragmented?"

I will defragment it at some point, but it will take a lot of time, and I am not
sure if that is the problem. Anyway, a standard defragmentation by the windows
defrager only defragments files, it doesn't place the files in the same dir
close together, as far as I know. And that is also important here.

When I can afford to buy a new desktop machine (this portable is not mine, I'm
just borrowing it), I will of course take better care to place the EGTB's in an
unfragmented disk, maybe in it's own partition. Still, I haven't heard how long
it takes for others. Maybe 25 seconds is normal.

/David



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