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I agree that fragmentation by itself doesn't cause crashes, but it can have
a dramatic impact on application speed. I suspect what was happening in my
case was that there was some interaction between Eudora and TradeStation
which was corrupting parts of my file system. Perhaps it was triggered by
the extra work the file system had to do when it was badly
fragmented. After about 30% of my crashes, I found that my email database
was corrupted. This stopped after I got version 5 of diskeeper installed
and running on the schedule described below. -uf
At 04:32 PM 9/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>A fragmented hard drive CANNOT cause any piece of application software to
>crash. Period. And they add little to application speed. What could be
>happening is that TS2k or some other piece of software is leaving invalid
>directory entries which cause unexpected results when the application in
>question tries to read them. Most defraggers correct bad entries during
>processing. The other thing could be a bad spot on your hard drive. But
>that is unlikely.
>
>Kent
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Wright <lwright@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 12:12 PM
>Subject: Re: How to get TS2k to run well (was 2K for sale)
>
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>
>On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Ullrich Fischer wrote:
>
> > I have a fair bit of crap (err...ah... excellent 3rd party software) on my
> > NT machine and it still works just fine with TS2Ki, eSignal, eudora email,
> > Lotus 123, Excel, MSword, and 3-4 IE 5.0 browser windows running. The key
> > to stability on my system was to add Diskeeper 5.0 from Executive
>Software
> > with automatic defrag set to happen between 1am and 6am every night. I
>
>Any ideas as to why it requires such frequent defrags to be stable? One
>would think that just one day of operation would not produce much
>fragmentation. And why should TS2k be *so* sensitive to defrags?
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