Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!jwt!john From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: The 33 MByte limit (was: Trouble installing DOS 4.01) Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 03:13:51 GMT References: <1991Apr20.061909.24406@leland.Stanford.EDU> <3367@p4tustin.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Private System -- Orlando, FL Lines: 21 In article <3367@p4tustin.UUCP> carl@p4tustin.UUCP (Carl W. Bergerson) writes: >Now, if you partition your disk into two equal sized partitions and if >you spread your applications and files equally between the partitions, >the distance from the FAT to SOMEWHERE will be about 1/2 what it would be >if you had one humungous partition. >Of course to achieve some substantial portion of this theoretical >improvement you need to give some thought as to which partition >you place individual applications and files. I think that last point should be emphasized. If your file accesses are randomly distrubuted across the two partitions, you'll end up spending more time seeking, not less. You need to organize things so that the file accesses in a given session are mostly from one partition or the other. Otherwise, you waste time seeking across the empty space between the two partitions. I'm not sure that I could break my files up into two logical "chunks," of which I'd only likely to be using one or the other. -- John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)