Make sure you do a defragmentation on the drive!!

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Stephen?With compression, must one go away with FSUIPC?Thanks:RTH>Yep. Same here: I compressed the FS9 partition and dumped>FSUIPC. Flying through a layer of cumuli can be so much fun.>>Win XP, P4 1800mh, Geforce sth. 4400 (I think). FS9 at>1600x1200x32, no AA

I'm wondering if compression is, in fact, resulting in improved performance if perhaps the OS is doing some predictive loading of compressed files (anticipating the time required to decompress) and storing more data in RAM VCache, while an uncompressed file is only read by sector(s) as needed so not so much of it is in RAM and hence the process / thread is halted waiting for I/O to complete and be rescheduled. If this hunch is correct, then the performance gain would be in proportion to RAM availability. It could also be that SATA and/or RAID disks might be managed differently.scott s..

I tested this out on my SCSI U160 system and noticed no improvement with compression, so I uncompressed. I'm guessing there is only improvement for IDE-based, non-RAID systems. I get great performance already--despite the infamous Granite Bay/9700 Pro combo. Have to run with fast writes off to avoid an occasional lockup is the only issue. So, I run with fast-writes off.Noel

Are you all finding that it's best to compress the entire C drive or just the FS9 program directory?Ken