Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread george greenfield
In message <20140624211245.gm1...@platypus.pepperfish.net> Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 06:36:18PM +0100, Chris Young wrote: >> >> It would be interesting to see if a Raspberry Pi running the GTK >> version from SD card has the same slowness. > > Assuming you were run

Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:14:16PM +0100, george greenfield wrote: > In message <20140624211245.gm1...@platypus.pepperfish.net> > Rob Kendrick wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 06:36:18PM +0100, Chris Young wrote: > >> > >> It would be interesting to see if a Raspberry Pi running th

Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread Steve (plusnet)
On 2014-06-25 12:57, Rob Kendrick wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:14:16PM +0100, george greenfield wrote: Does that mean that selecting 'Make file operations multitask' in !Configure-Filer, actually doesn't? It means that it writes smaller chunks and calls Wimp_Poll in between them to give

Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 01:32:58PM +0100, Steve (plusnet) wrote: > Secondly, it's not true to say file system operations block everything > in RISC OS - some file systems (notably ADFS) implement "background > transfers" which allow much of RISC OS to continue to operate while the > underlying file

Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread Steve (plusnet)
On 2014-06-25 13:36, Rob Kendrick wrote: (Getting into the technical distinctions between WIMP and non-WIMP tasks was something I was trying to avoid getting into on the user's mailing list :) Fair enough, but if you're going to say things like "the whole system stops while the individual chu

Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 01:44:01PM +0100, Steve (plusnet) wrote: > On 2014-06-25 13:36, Rob Kendrick wrote: > >(Getting into the technical distinctions between WIMP and non-WIMP > >tasks > >was something I was trying to avoid getting into on the user's > >mailing > >list :) > > Fair enough, but if

Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread Steve (plusnet)
On 2014-06-25 13:51, Rob Kendrick wrote: Of course not :) But from the user's point of view, everything does stop :) Pesky users... :) Steve

Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 25 Jun at 13:32, "Steve (plusnet)" wrote: > It is hoped that one of the later stages of "filesystem improvements" > that we've been hosting bounties about on the ROOL site will address > some of these issues, but at the current rate that the bounty scheme > has been gathering donations, we'l

Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread Steve (plusnet)
On 2014-06-25 14:57, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: I have intermittently subscribed to a bounty or two. Rather than hijack this mailing list, you'd be welcome to post these questions to the ROOL bounty forum: https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/8 Cheers, Steve

Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 25 Jun at 15:22, "Steve (plusnet)" wrote: > On 2014-06-25 14:57, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > > I have intermittently subscribed to a bounty or two. > > Rather than hijack this mailing list, you'd be welcome to post these > questions to the ROOL bounty forum: > > https://www.riscosopen.org/forum

Re: Disc cache worth it?

2014-06-25 Thread John Williams
In article , Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > > Rather than hijack this mailing list, you'd be welcome to post these > > questions to the ROOL bounty forum: > > > > https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/8 > Can't stand forums. Rather than attempt to get Tim to grapple with his personal demons, I h