[Xitami] Xitami too harddisk intensive..

Paul Reid xitami@lists.xitami.org
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:02:29 -0400


28 megs is really very-very tight. I lived for years with 32 megs, even
with NT, but the machine was very bare compared to a typical Win98
installation. 

More RAM may stop thrashing. 

You may just be getting hit by a lot of Nimba requests. Xitami has to
look for the bogus file and also log the request and error to files.
Again, more RAM may help by allowing Windows to use some RAM to cache
the hard drive. 

BTW: thrashing the drive probably won't hurt it. I know an ex hard drive
designer and he tells tales of the "torture rack" they used to test new
designs. The worst Windows thrashing is nothing like a worst-cast
thrash-test. 

 PRR