To:	Bill Davidson <bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com>
Cc:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>,
	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Ramdrive
Date:	Wed, 11 Jan 95 08:58:07 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> choked.  However, there generally seemed to be more than 2000K 
> available!  I also added "core dump.g32" to the GO32 variable to record 

How can this be when go32 reports only 1900K free before the
program starts:

> I typed go32 at DOS prompt and got:
> go32 version 1.12.maint2 ...
> go32 build time was Sunday September 11 21:30:28 1994
> VCPI (Expanded) memory available: 1912Kb
> Swap space available: 131040 Kb

>> Get more memory :-(  3MB is really much too tight to use DJGPP, at
>> least for large programs.  This shouldn't be your problem with Info,
> I didn't want to hear that (!), but I plan to get a couple more megs in 
> the near future.

You might also try without RAMDRIVE at all.  If you have a disk
cache installed, RAM drive doesn't help much (about 10% reduction
of compilation time at best doesn't justify losing 1 MB of RAM if
you only have 3MB to spare, IMHO).  If you don't have disk cache,
install one, and be sure it's set to write-back (aka delayed-write)
operation.  This *does* affect compilation speed quite a bit.

Did you try what I suggested on 9 Jan (running without ANSI.SYS and
without go32=ansi)?

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