On Mar 27, 7:45=A0pm, "Rita Berkowitz" <ritaberk2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ron Hunter wrote:
> > =A0 Disk I/O is VASTLY slower than ram access. =A0Worse, many programs
> > seem to access 'scratchpad' files in a terribly inefficient,
> > 'byte-wise' manner making things terribly slow. =A0The best solution
is
> > to load the computer with all the ram it can handle, and get one with
> > a quad-core (or two of them), and a fast HD. =A0Frankly, Windows does
a
> > terrible job of swapping ram to and from disk.
>
> Ron, that's what I've been saying. =A0Our boy -hh has some serious I/O
> problems. =A0Had he been using a decent SCSI RAID array he would be
offloa=
ding
> out of the old scratch disc so fast he'd barely break a GB of used
memory.=
Always so relevant when the system is idling.
Next time, try looking at the %CPU being used by Photoshop (its at 2%)
before jumping to conclusions about I/O:
<http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2008/activity.jpg>
-hh
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