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On Saturday 20 September 2008 16:16:41 Stroller wrote: |
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> I can't tell you how long this went on for - I am sure that less than |
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> 100 food orders would typically be taken per day, so it would surely |
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> have taken forever to fill even the c 6gig drives that were standard |
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> at the time, but I have an idea that the software perhaps started |
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> making repeated attempts to write the data files, resulting in more |
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> empty files on the disk. |
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> In any case, you can imagine the results. Dialing in using PC Anywhere |
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> over 56k was slow at the best of times - the GUI was particularly slow |
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> once the machine ran out of disk space & pagefile, whilst deleting |
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> these kazillions of zero-length files took several hours. |
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Well I *did* say it was not impossible :-) See what I did there - I built a |
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catch-all opt-out clause into my post so I could always be at least partially |
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right, hehehehe |
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I shudder to ask, but I will anyway - how many files? Any idea? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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