[Arny Krueger]

"Laurence Payne" NOSPAMlpayne1ATdsl.pipex.com wrote in message
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:48:00 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

That would be the effective transfer rate. One way to shoot transfer rate
in
the foot is to have a second independent process that is putting seeks on
the drive. If your system has only 1 drive and is swapping heavily while
you are recording, then you are cruising for a bruising.

But why on Earth WOULD it be "swapping heavily" (whatever that means?)

Lack of RAM.

Sure, you can sabotage any recording by running another disk-intensive
process behind it.

Or memory intensive when RAM is insufficient.

Which is why you don't :-)

Agreed.

Some of my comments are based on the fact that the last two machines I
worked on were a 64meg Win Me machine and a 256 meg XP machine. Both would
sit an an empty desktop, no programs running, and just swap a little.