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I'd just like to thank you very much for this tip. I have been
frustrated to death by my mouse being frequently frozen to the spot for
several seconds at a time since increasing my RAM from 16 to 72 Mb. I
have now bravely selected my own virtual memory setting and hey presto
problem solved.
Malcolm Scott
Ron wrote:
> Disk thrashing could be the result of having the Windows read-ahead
> function set to the full 64 k.
> Since much of the I/O in Metastock is random, this can cause a lot of
> unnecessary reads and
> page faults. Try setting the read-ahead function to 1/4 (16 k). This
> may help. Also, Windows
> 95 memory management is not clever and uses too much memory for
> caching. You need to
> limit your disk cache to 4-8 megabytes. You will recover quite a bit
> of cpu time by doing this;
> leave this setting in place for all of windows 95 as this tends to
> help overall performance.
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