geeman@best.com
Tue, 19 May 1998 08:51:24 -0700
Indeed, and that may be true factoring in the crypto ohead. Fact remains
that paging is then required to run in a critical section and it does
prevent any other use of the file system when the pager's busy. Whether
this has a noticable subjective effect will depend on what you're doing.
You can switch your system any time to use real-mode drivers --- I know if
I do it on my machine it gets slower.
At 12:51 PM 5/19/98, Peter Gutmann wrote:
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>Win95 has drivers which take advantage of the enhanced capabilities of newer
>drives, so this doesn't hold true any more for that. However from feedback
>I've had from users any performance difference is negligible.
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>Peter.
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