Forums Feature Suggestions mirc.ini suggestion for overall performance

hello all,
i doubt this post will ever be considered but after checking the file access mirc does i've notitced it tends to massively access the file mirc.ini, and even though there is caching, and accesses are small and short this still puts a constant strain on the disk, and i believe it'd be better to move the file into ram and only access disk when there is write access. That's it!

Thanks,

DeathWolf

How did you determine mIRC was constantly re-reading the file from disk?

any disk access debugger tool will tell u a processes disk access
you can try filemon from sysinternals(or was it sysutils?) for example

Most of the mirc.ini is infact cached in memory, which explains why when you edit the ini file during program runtime the settings do not change unless you restart mIRC, thus the ini file is re-read.

However, in cases like channels listing, mirc seems to read them a new.

Eamonn.