Opening time after startup of Windows

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 1/3/09 3:08 PM, "Leo Van den Brande" <leo_van_den_brande at wxs.nl> wrote:

> The testers, using widely varying PC's reported long times as well.
> These varied between 20 and 45 seconds (note this is only on opening
> the DB after startup of the PC). Excluding the antivirus program gave
> some reduction in some but not all.
> There were two exceptions:
> - one very fast: 1.3  seconds with Intel Core-2, 2.5 Ghz, 4Gb RAM,
> both Windows XP and Vista.
> - one extremely slow: 209, 11 and 9- seconds on repitition with a
> Dell Inspiron, Ghz not reported, 512 MB RAM(!)

This force me to think about RAM !

So if you ask CACHE 250MB,  Windows must get this free space somewhere.
It start cleanup space.

Strange that AFTER startup this require some time ...
Hmm.

So main advice is -- do not set default cache so huge.
Or it helps later during work of app ?



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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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