Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:47:11 +0300 (IDT)
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Subject:	Re: build cvs djdev on 386?
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> If you do have 4MiB
> or less I strongly recommend setting a tiny SMARTDRV cache (256kiB or
> so) or none. If you let SMARTDRV decide to its default (perhaps it was
> 2MiB, I don't remember) you'll be waiting a lot longer.

For such memory-starved machines, I don't recommend SmartDrv, as its own 
code takes too much space, compared with 256KB cache.  Instead, look on 
SimTel in the msdos directory for disk caches which load into 
conventional memory and set up such a cache for 256KB.  That would leave 
you more free extended memory for GCC.

If you decide to go without a disk cache at all, don't forget to set 
BUFFERS in your CONFIG.SYS to something appropriate (see the FAQ).  
BUFFERS is the poor man's disk cache, and without it DOS is hopelessly 
inefficient in disk I/O.

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