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From: mrh@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Hannah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Sllloooowww Mac II problem
Message-ID: <2130@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 22:13:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: Shasta.2130
Posted: Wed Oct 21 22:13:29 1987
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Summary: MultiFinder improvements

In article <3021@husc6.UUCP>, singer@endor.harvard.edu (Richard Siegel) writes:
> 	Since the Finder's running in the background, it updates the
> disk statistics *every time* a write occurs. If you want to see slow,
> try running MacTerminal under MF with the "Save Lines Off Top" 
> option enabled.
   I believe the final version of MultiFinder addresses this problem somewhat.
If the file is busy, I think the Finder 'updates' are not done as regularly
as you imply. I know that with early releases of MultiFinder and using
the downloading capability of VersaTerm in background, file transfers
were slowed down by the Finder doing the updates. This was improved a
great deal with later releases of MultiFinder. Since I don't use MacTerminal
I don't know about the exact problem you mention but overall the performance
has been MUCH improved.

David Gelphman