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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: How do I unfragment my HD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.020457.22035@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:04:57 GMT
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- In article <BxzsIB.8qp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan) writes:
- >On a tangent, is there any utility that can track free CPU/disk time and
- >apply them for purposeful activity? For example, if the hard disk is
- >sitting idle, then OS/2 could do some defragmentation or swapfile/*.ini
- >maintenance. Perhaps a program launcher (even a REXX script) with these
- >programs set at very low priorities could do the same thing. (The swap-
- >file maintenance would be especially useful.)
-
- Well, you can set a program to run at IDLE priority, which will make
- sure that you do not notice any slowdown in the foreground. You can
- also schedule tasks arbitrarily (e.g. run a command file at Tuesday,
- 8:00 p.m.) To do so, use the Alarms applet that comes with OS/2 2.0,
- or choose one of the several freeware/shareware alternatives available
- via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
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