From:	criggs13 AT aol DOT com (Criggs13)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: slow dos, fast win95 linking ?
Date:	14 Jan 1997 05:38:02 GMT
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>Win95 just uses all available memory left as a cache, and if a program
>required that memory, the memory is freed. Pretty cool I think... :)
>

Just my 2 cents - I have 80 megs and after i use win95 for a while.
programs start swapping to disk(even with only one small program open) It
appears to me that the memory is not getting freeded.  Anyway you can go
into the system.ini and in the 
[vcache] section add the following lines to set the minimum and maximum
size of the file cache

minfilecache=
maxfilecache=

and put the amount of memory in K that you want. Ive found it helpes me
alot (keeps me from swapping memory to disk) and my djgpp build times stay
very fast

Chris Riggs
criggs13 AT aol DOT com
 

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