How long e Sword takes to start depends on several factors:
- How much RAM the systems has;
- How many programs are running in the background;
- How many resources one has;
- What anti-malware software is running;
- How many fonts are installed1;
- How the hard drive is connected to the computer;
- AMD chips provide better e Sword performance than Intel chips2.
- Free disk space;
- The more RAM that one has installed, the faster e Sword will start;
- The more programs that are running in, the longer e Sword takes to start;
- The more resources one has, the longer e Sword takes to start;
- Anti-malware that looks at each read, and/or each write operation, will significantly slow down e Sword;
- Drives that have USB connections are considerably slower than drives with SATA connections;
- Using resources on a CD or a DVD will negatively impact e Sword performance;
- For optimal system performance, Windows requires at least 25% of the disc partition to be free;
- For optimal system performance, Windows requires at least 25% of the disc drive to be empty3;
- Linux requires the swap partition to be at least four times the size of System RAM4;
2 If the specifications for the AMD chip are 25% less than those of the Intel chip, the AMD chip provides equal performance. If the AMD chips specifications are less than 25% of the Intel chip, then the AMD chip provides better performance than the Intel chip.
3 This is in addition to the percentage of free space on each partition.
4 The usefulness of this has been questioned. The Linux kernel still expects to find a swap partition of this size.
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The issue that both I and Vaugn have run into, is "too many resources". My recomendation is for no more than 500 resources of all types. I obviously don't follow my own recomendation on this point.
jonathon