I just defragmented my NT server hard drive and
search time (500,000 records) was cut in 1/3.
In retrospect, defragging is really important
if you are using webinator and occasionally
update/add/delete to your db. Updates will
do to different sectors. My hard drive
was severely, severely fragmented. I used
Norton's Utilities, speed disk. It took
5 hours to defrag my system (I scheduled it
to run at night).
This is also true of the Unix boxes. Some FS's are better
than others, but you can generally hand optimize A Webinator DB
a little bit on a sparse FS by copying the DB.
