Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/02/22/07:36:03
Hi, thanks for all the hints on the usability of a RAM disk
for improving on compilation time.
I have 3MB XMS from which 1MB was in use by SMARTDRV.
From the remaining 2MB free I tried to make a RAM drive
of 1MB, leaving 1MB XMS free.
This really made performance worse.
Here is a summary of the hints I got:
-Before doing anything else one should have at LEAST
2MB XMS free (4MB is really nice)!
-A disk cache of around 0.5MB should be enough,
it saves some more XMS memory.
Or get rid of the cache at all whem a lot of
swapping is going on.
-One could improve further by making a RAM disk for GCC
temporary files.
Also, one could run DBLDISK on the RAM disk to improve
on its size.
-use topline option in GO32 to configure the memory.
-use the shareware program COMBI113.ZIP which is a
cache/ram disk/XMS manager.
I didn't try it myself yet, but ik looks promising.
Available at oak.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/diskutil
-get more memory.
Thanks again,
Raymond Rosmalen
raymond AT kunhe1 DOT hef DOT kun DOT nl
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