Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Aug 2005 14:26 UTC
With Vista, Microsoft is addressing what's become a sad truth for most people: PCs run more slowly over time. Vista will automatically de-fragment hard disks, make better use of memory to more quickly load programs, and include a new performance control panel that will identify performance bottlenecks, according to the company. Elsewhere, ActiveWin hosts widescreen, high-res screenshots of Vista.
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Member since:2005-07-07
Member since:>>fragmentation is a fact of life. If you have 5gb of free hd space, but only 500mb of continuous free space, you have to break up a 1gb file into multiple fragments to store it.<<
Apparently you haven't been paying attention.
HFS +(Mac OS X)
ext 3,
resierFS (i think),
and probably others
will auto sort the files so that the 1 gb file your talking about is put into one continuous space. These systems don't fragment the hard drive unless it's really full(ie less than 10% of the drive remaining empty)Also if you have only 5 gig's free off of a 50 gig disk, you really should consider backup storage anyway. Because one minor error and you ust lost a lot of data.
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Don't auto-defragment the filesystem, write it properly so it doesn't fragment! Welcome to 1982 Microsoft.
Mind you, Linux has code bloat these days, I remember 5-6 years ago running RedHat 6.1 and even some of the 7.x series on a 96Mb/P200MMX/13Gb, KDE/Gnome would run fine. Last year I struggled to get a PIII-500/320Mb to run RH9.
My P4 3GHz/HT with 1Gb/400Gb runs FC4 very nicely though thankyou ;-)