Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:16:56 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	mapson <mapson AT mapson DOT com>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DJGPP on a 386
In-Reply-To:	<33a1d6f2.4203083@news.cis.yale.edu>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970618171507.24919B-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, mapson wrote:

> I have DJGPP on a pentium at work, a 486 at home, and yesterday I put
> it on a spare 10-year old 386 with just under 900k memory. Everything
> seems great, except for one thing- compile times on the things are...
> well, let's just say much longer than I can possibly stand. To test
> it, I compiled a 800 line program... 2.5 hours later I came back, it
> was still chugging. So I killed it, tried compiling a "Hello
> world!"... still, took about 5 minutes!

Did you check out the system configuration hints in section 3.9 of the 
FAQ?  Every machine that has less than 2MB of main memory needs some 
special taloring of the CWSDPMI setup to run reasonably.  The FAQ tells 
you how to do that.

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