Hi :)
Is Disktrix UltimateDefrag free? FOSS? Lol, somehow i doubt it but i
keep an ear out jic.
I tend to use the inbuilt Windows one. I don't really care enough
anymore to go beyond that. When i did used to care i used
PerfectDisk. it usually has a 1 month free trial and that was usually
enough for me. Nowadays i just really prefer to just do a reasonably
good job and since that is far, far ahead of the way most systems are
set-up i just settle for that. I've even found a tendency for ones in
England to be set to US localisation and such.
If i want a fast system i just reboot into Gnu&Linux. Windows has
other advantages but speed and security are not top of the list!
Eskimos have a lot of words for snow and ice because they see a lot of
it all. Windows has a lot of words for different security issues
because it suffers from tons of different things. [shrugs] I still
use Windows quite a bit though because when you know a thing's flaws
it's usually easier to cope. Like going round to see a cat owner who
insists their cat is always free of fleas, you just know you are going
to get bitten so you just deal with it.
Regards from
Tom :)
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*From:* Andrew Brown <andrewbr@icon.co.za>
*To:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
*Cc:* users@global.libreoffice.org
*Sent:* Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 23:01
*Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3
Hi Tom
Ah Ok, I see, this is the same methodology I'm using. I generally
turn off the swap file for a badly defragged drive, including any
hibernation files etc if active or used on a laptop, then defrag
(Disktrix UltimateDefrag, possibly the best I've used to date).
After a good clean-up I then set the pagefile and any hibernation
files if necessary.
With UD's FragProtect, this only has to be done every few months,
and they are one of the few defraggers that can defrag and place
the MFT at the beginning of the drive along with the folders
entries, ahead of any data. But this has to be done with a reboot
and MS pre-install mode (UD does it all automatically) to complete
this task. And I've benched my drives on all of my systems, it
certainly makes for very fast boot and shutdown times, and better
stability.
Regards
Andrew Brown
On 31/07/2013 10:52 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> wrt Virtual Memory/pagefile.sys/Swap on Windows the trick seems
to be to set it as a fixed value.
>
> Find
> "System Properties" - Advanced tab - Performance (top 3rd)
Settings - Performance Settings - Advanced tab here too - Virtual
Memory (bottom section) Change
> There will be about 3 pop-ups open around now.
>
> Use the radio buttons there to change to a "Custom size". This
really needs to be greater than Ram but not more than 2xRam (else
it gets confused and may even reduce performance while tripping
over it's own shoelaces). It has to be greater than Ram because
when hibernating (perhaps sleeping too?) the contents of Ram gets
written to Virtual Memory. But giving it too much just confuses
space just confuses things so just under 2xRam is good but over
that might get annoying. Make sure the same number is in both the
top and bottom boxes. Often there is a recommendation for how
much to set it too and it's usually not a bad idea to follow that
advice. I've only seen it give a crazy suggestion once or twice
out of hundreds of machines.
>
> Ok, now it gets a bit fiddly. You have to click on the "Set"
button before clicking on "Ok" otherwise it forgets and you have
to re-type the numbers again. Then you click "Ok" on each of the
pop-ups in turn. Again if you don't it's not harmful, just
annoying because it forgets.
>
>
> Of course if you have already been using your machine for a
while then Virtual Memory is already quite fragmented so this will
only 'stop' it getting worse. It wont improve things. Also when i
say 'stop' it will continue to suffer normal system rot and there
are other factors such as registry fragmentation that will
continue. So, it fixes just 1 problem out of many.
>
> When trying to resurrect an ancient and much used machine i
would initially set Virtual Memory to 0. Then defrag quite a lot
and then plonk a fairly huge file onto the system. Then reset the
Virtual Memory to a respectable size and get rid of the huge file.
In theory i hoped that would force all the Virtual Memory file to
be contiguous and out of the way.
>
>
> Gnu&Linux does NOT SUFFER from fragmentation until the drive is
something like 96% full, not sure of the exact figure but
definitely over 90% (it's always that extra just 1 episode/movie
of Star Trek). Files might well be fragmented much lower than that
despite the elegant way that files are carefully placed in
Ext2,3,4 with plenty of room all around them to allow them to
grow. There is a limit to how much that policy can really work of
course. However even when files are fragmented there seems to be
a better system for tracking where all the bits are so the
read/write head can anticipate and plan ahead a bit better.
>
> So what i find odd is that despite that Gnu&Linux doesn't use a
Swap file by default! One of the main rules in Gnu&Linux is that
for any 'rule' there is always at least 1 version or distro or
something that deliberately breaks that rule but in the case of
Swap i haven't found one yet. They all seem to follow it! They
all seem to use a separate Swap partition or don't use Swap at all.
>
>
> In Windows, which can't cope with fragmented files and couldn't
(until fairly recently) defrag system files people insist on
setting Virtual Memory to fragment as quickly as possible.
Sometimes they set it to have a fixed lower amount and only vary
the top-off but that still means the file gets read and re-written
elsewhere and fragmented.
>
> Normally by default it's set to keep changing size according to
how much of it is needed. That sounds good in theory. When you
need more memory it just expands to fill up more hard-drive space
when you need less it releases some of it. You can get Gnu&Linux
to use a swap-file just the same instead (or as well as) having a
separate fixed swap partition. Unfortunately Windows file-systems
such as the various Fats (vFat, Fat32 etc) and Ntfs are carefully
designed to make sure files fragment quite quickly and end up with
bits scattered all over the place.
>
> Say you have file A that is 20units long and the next file B is
10. Then you delete A and write a file C that is 30 units. Now
you have 20units of C followed by 10 units of B followed by the
remaining 10 of C. If you now delete B and copy A back then you
get 20 of C, followed by 10 of A followed by the 10 remaining of C
and then the last 10 of A. So when you try reading a file the
read/write head lurches around the drive trying to find the
various shopped up parts of the file. If that file is a
frequently accessed system file such as Virtual Memory then it can
significantly reduce performance.
>
> In Gnu&Linux it is reckoned that you can significantly increase
performance by putting your system files, particularly your log
files, on a different hard-drive from your data. i mean a proper
hard-drive not just a different partition on the same physical
device. The main reason for putting your data (all in /home) on a
separate partition is not to do with routine performance. it's
more about making the system more robust. it allows you to
install a completely new OS without any risk to your data (but
still back-up anyway of course). In theory you can have several
different OSes all using the same /home although that gets a bit
messy if they have the same DE. it works a bit better if you have
1 KDE one, 1 Gnome(ish), and maybe 1 of any of the rarer ones
(does Unity count as 1 of the rarer ones? i'd say it does but i'm
sure others disagree). Otherwise you find all your different OSes
use the same wallpaper and look the same (big yawn that is) and
you don't get the benefit of the different design teams
interesting work.
>
>
> Something i haven't really tried much, or at least can't
remember the result, is putting all the Virtual Memory on a
separate physical hard-drive. There is an option to split Virtual
Memory across several different hard-drives/partitions some of
which might be physically different drives but i'm not sure
whether doing that is good or bad.
>
>
> Errr, i haven't mentioned Bsd or Apple because i just haven't
played around with them that much. They don't seem to slow down
as much as Windows so i guess they have a similar set-up to
Gnu&Linux or have some neat work-around that might not translate
well to Gnu&Linux let alone Windows.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
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> *From:* Andrew Brown <andrewbr@icon.co.za
<mailto:andrewbr@icon.co.za>>
> *To:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk
<mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>>
> *Cc:* Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com
<mailto:cuyfalls@hotmail.com>>;
> users@global.libreoffice.org
<mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 8:48
> *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3
>
> Hi Tom
>
> Interesting post. Agree, sometimes these software wars becomes
> irksome,
> as my late mother and father used to say and raised us with
this
> motto
> "how do you know you don't like it if you have not tried it".
This
> was
> from our young years with foodstuffs that traditionally many
young
> children don't / have never tried, up to the real things in
life.
> But I
> am in a similiar vein in what MS charge for their O/S and
Office
> suites
> when they are riddled with known and unknown bugs.
>
> At least I have always tried to keep an open mind, and
thankfully was
> raised on other O/S's (not necessarily desktop/workstation
> friendly) and
> systems pre-dating MS. I cut my teeth on IBM VAX, Pick, LISP,
> FORTRAN,
> COBOL, AT&T and SCO Unix, CP/M, BASIC and Xerox GEM, before
the
> adventure into IBM and MS systems with the very first and
crude
> DOS, and
> then Apple O/S starting some 36 years ago.
>
> I can with experience say I have tried them all, and why my
entire
> business and home office is OSS and FOSS, even to desktop. I
give my
> staff the choice of MS or FOSS, thankfully they all eventually
> migrate
> to FOSS, which allows me to plow the monies recovered from
ongoing
> and
> unnecessary licensing fees into better, faster and more up to
date
> hardware. Even to the level of my servers.
>
> To end off, the major difference I have between MS software
and FOSS,
> and you covered briefly in your reply, is that when one
discovers
> a bug,
> or has a problem, one can get a solution or have it fixed
promptly
> without waiting for a major release or service pack, unlike
> proprietory
> and closed code. This is the same for malware, it takes so
long
> for the
> commercial software to produce a fix and prevention compared
to it
> almost being a non-entity in FOSS.
>
> I would be intrigued and grateful, if you could email me
> privately, your
> tweaks you do for the virtual memory slowdown of it's
> fragmentation (by
> the way MS refers to it as the pagefile). And that's another
> feather in
> FOSS's cap, one never has fragmentation or needs to
defragment it,
> unlike MS. I might know or remember them, but it's not
coming to
> memory
> as I type this.
>
> Regards
>
> On 30/07/2013 03:27 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > I think disdain is possibly closer than hatred. I think
bioth
> are quite far away from the reality though. I think it's
simply
> that people would rather develop tools that are more robust
and
> less susceptible to malware and slow-downs.
> >
> >
> > I think once you start using OpenSource tools you begin to
> realise that MS seem to have deliberately built-in
vulnerabilities
> and their slow-downs. FOSS doesn't seem to suffer anything
like
> as much, although a bit of "system rot" is inevitable in
almost
> any system.
> >
> > I'm just installing Win7 on a handfull of machines and am
able
> to make a couple of tweaks that prevent their "Virtual Memory"
> from getting so heavily fragmented. In previous versions of
their
> OS i have found it significantly reduces the slow-downs if
you can
> do this early on. On Win7 it takes an extra couple of clicks
but
> it's still really easy. I always wonder why the default is
to set
> it to fragment as quickly as possible. It's only with Win7
that
> their de-fragger tool can defrag system files such as the
Virtual
> Memory (err that is Swap to Gnu&Linux geeks lol).
> >
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com
<mailto:cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> <mailto:cuyfalls@hotmail.com <mailto:cuyfalls@hotmail.com>>>
> >> To: Amit Choudhary <contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com
<mailto:contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com>
> <mailto:contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com
<mailto:contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com>>>;
> users@global.libreoffice.org
<mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org>
<mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org
<mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org>>
> >> Sent: Monday, 29 July 2013, 20:30
> >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3
> >>
> >>
> >> I certainly hope the primary motive for FOSS such as LO is
not
> a disdain for
> >> MS. I personally don't care how much money MS makes. I
hope the LO
> >> developers are motivated by a desire to produce a great
product
> that can be
> >> used worldwide. Hatred usually doesn't provide a very
effective
> motive for
> >> productive action.
> >>
> >> Virgil
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Amit Choudhary
> >> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 10:47 AM
> >> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
<mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org>
> <mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org
<mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org>>
> >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Amit Choudhary
> >> <contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com
<mailto:contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com>
> <mailto:contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com
<mailto:contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Andrew Brown
> <andrewbr@icon.co.za <mailto:andrewbr@icon.co.za>
<mailto:andrewbr@icon.co.za <mailto:andrewbr@icon.co.za>>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Amit
> >>>>
> >>>> I understand where you are coming from, and the good
news is,
> in your
> >>>> favour, that MS in both it's O/S and office suite are
losing
> market share
> >>>> in a big way. Here's an article from Ubuntu founder
and my
> countryman
> >>>> Mark Shuttelworth on his take on MS and Ubuntu. I like
his
> statement that
> >>>> the no.1 bug in Linux has now been
> > fixed/closed, in that MS no longer
> >>>> dominates majority market share.
> >>>
> >>> But the numbers don't lie. I checked MS revenues and
profits on
> >>> finance.yahoo.com and it doesn't look like MS is losing
market
> share. MS
> >>> losing share might be an illusion.
> >>>
> >> Period Ending Jun 30, 2012
> >> Jun 30, 2011 Jun 30, 2010
> >>
> >> Net Income Applicable To Common Shares $16,978,000
$23,150,000
> >> $18,760,000 (All numbers in thousands)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Amit
> >>
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