Posted by Grant Foraker on September 05, 2008 at 13:32:11:
I've been thinking about speed boosts for Comet at the hardware level.
Vista has ReadyBoost where a thumb drive can be used for memory paging in place of the page file on the C: drive. I'm guessing this will be in Server 2008 too. Nice, but isn't there something better. I found the SuperSpeed line of products. See link.
On my next development laptop, 4GB with 32 bit Vista, I'd give 2GB to Vista and 2GB to a Ram Drive. All my Comet development directories fit in 2GB. As I've implemented Comet Windows, compiles have slowed because of the bigger program size and WDL INC files. My mass compiles of individual customers have noticabley slowed as well. And, my test files have swelled with samples of live data. Makes for better testing. This should make my day to day work a lot faster.
On my next server, 64 bit Small Business Server 2008, I'd give 2-3 GB to SBS 2008, and 2-4GB to SuperVolume. For my office I don't need the speeed but I'd like to test this out for my customers. Most of my customers can put all of their heavily used files into a 2-4GB Super Volume. Maybe all their Comet directories. This kind of configuration could make Comet meteoric.
It looks like that these two products can see above the 4GB level even when you install it on a 32bit OS that can only see uo to 4GB.
Caveat: I've heard complaints about hardware BIOS's not allowing the 4th GB to be seen by 32bit OS's.
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