Read Ahead

Shaft · April 27th, 2002

Everyone here remember being able to change the how much a CD drive reads ahead in windows 98 right. You could limit it so that there was no read ahead. How do you do that in XP? I can't find it anywhere and I even looked in help. Help.

lazywanker · April 29th, 2002

xp is obviously optimised for fast cd drives and so has a high(as high as you'll ever need) read ahead setting as default.
also read-ahead hardly uses any cpu cycles but uses alot of ram(about 750kb

in win98 IIRC)
since you have 256mb i can't see any reason why you would need to change anything.

April 27th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
Shaft meh.... Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 116	Read Ahead Everyone here remember being able to change the how much a CD drive reads ahead in windows 98 right. You could limit it so that there was no read ahead. How do you do that in XP? I can't find it anywhere and I even looked in help. Help. __________________ Allahu Akbar Pentium 4 2 GHz 128 MB Geforce 4 Ti4600 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 512 MB RD800Ram 80 Gig Maxtor HD 7200 3dMark 2001 SE -> Pure HW 10165

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April 29th, 2002	#2 (permalink)
lazywanker Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 49	xp is obviously optimised for fast cd drives and so has a high(as high as you'll ever need) read ahead setting as default. also read-ahead hardly uses any cpu cycles but uses alot of ram(about 750kb in win98 IIRC) since you have 256mb i can't see any reason why you would need to change anything.