> From: Robert Benschop <robertbenschop@bigfoot.com>
>
> on 17-03-2000 5:33, Loren Finkelstein at Loren@Finkelstein.Net wrote:
>
>> My internal store took 34 seconds (2.9k/sec) to do the test that should have
>> taken 12 seconds. I have about 228k free. My system was brainwiped only a
>> month or 2 ago, so fragmentation shouldn't be that bad.
>>
>> My 8 meg memory card, on the other hand, did it in 11 seconds (8.8k/sec).
>> It has 2.4 megs free.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Yes, move some stuff to your card, your internal is getting too full.
What can I say. I have a lot of contacts. :-)
And a lot of stuff that insists on being on internal
Seriously, would an overcrowded internal memory store cause the slowdown? I
just cleared off some more space, giving me 399k free on my internal and now
the test takes 12.7 sec (7.8k/sec). Wow! Who knew.
And that's without doing a brain wipe.
Loren
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