<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 10/2/2004 9:08:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, fp@wjv.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Transpower@aol.com, the prominent pundit, on Sat, Oct 02 11:19 while half <BR>
mumbling half-witicized: <BR>
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>One positive thing about XP SP2:? I installed it several days<BR>
>ago and I must say that my computer (specifically disk reads<BR>
>and writes) appears to be much faster than with SP1.<BR>
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Appearances can be deceiving. In other words, do you have any<BR>
benchmarks you ran before and after. I do that on disk systems<BR>
and save the results in the Unix servers.<BR>
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Bill:<BR>
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No benchmarks yet; my demo copy of Performance Test ran out. Next time I do a backup I'll let you know if there's any difference. By the way, backing up 13 GB used to take 1 hour, 20 minutes on an HP Ultrium LTO; after changing settings so that system cache (rather than programs) is optimized (and setting System Mechanic so that XP writes the cache every 2 seconds), I got the backup time down to 20 minutes! And shadow copy now works properly.<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
RWS<BR>
Transpower Corporation<BR>
<A HREF="www.transpowercorp.com">www.transpowercorp.com</A><BR>
transpower@aol.com<BR>
SCO Authorized and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering<BR>
Commercial and custom software manufacturing since 1976<BR>
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