Re: [NTLK] restoring Newtonworks

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Dan <dan@dbdigitalweb.com> wrote:
> On 2/24/2008 12:13 PM, Oliver Leaman wrote:
back to life again, but it certainly readily did. One suggestion I
read was to carry out such a hard reset regularly, since it is good
for the machine. Is that true?

> Well what it does is reduce fragmentation of memory. As you use it,
> memory gets fragmented and takes a little more memory due to this and is
> a little slower reading/writing. Some do this on a regular basis, but I
> don't bother. At least I don't see a degrade in performance enough to
> justifty it...

Well, I just did my first hard reset in 6 years on my daily Newt, and
it's like a whole new machine. Of course, I stripped off all the
packages I haven't used in the past 5 years, too, which helps, but it
was certainly worth it to me.

Of course, that's not really regular. :)

-M. Reidsma, Boston, MA

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