-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 18:58 -0800, Jerry Houston wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The question for XP admins is if that task is really worthwhile; I mean, if having a computer off-line for several hours with heavy disk activity and wear, as compared to been perhaps a small percent slower in normal use.
I suspect that the aforementioned "several hours" is only with a very slow CPU. I've never timed mine, but I'd be surprised if it ever took as much as an hour.
Not as much cpu as disk and buses throughput, and memory for write cache.
The questions does still remain, "Does it really make any difference"? I'd guess that the vendors who sell the utilities, and the OEMs who include them, and the computer magazines that evaluate them wouldn't waste their time if there was no need.
I did unfragment when I used dos or windows, and the difference was not easily noticeable. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuWqAtTMYHG2NR9URAuEgAJ0e449CXhMwI9uHbkW1Cdumml7jXQCfR/gG g0B+6A5YKJrM4NQccEpCM6c= =tVYD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org