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From: jsilva@cogsci.berkeley.edu (John Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Desqview: I get bad disk performance, please help
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Date: 23 Aug 90 00:31:01 GMT
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In article <2026@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> mg@cs.Princeton.EDU writes:
>I am running Desqview 2.26 / QEMM 5.0 on a 386 system. I have found that
>when I run CORETEST (The disk performance program), after QEMM is loaded,
>transfer performance are much higher (4-5 times)  than when I run it from
>inside DV. This is also reflected in the timing of a COPY command.
>
[...]
>
> Michael Golan
> mg@princeton.edu
> 

Quarterdeck recommends that when running DesqView under QEMM the 'DOS buffers
for EMS' option under the Advanced Setup: Performance menu should be set to 0.  

This should dramatically increase performance inside DesqView.

-J.

John P. Silva                                 "I drank WHAT?!"
Inova Products, Inc.                 Internet: jsilva@cogsci.berkeley.edu
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