Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 18:01:16 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Performance
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

> This reminded me of something - go32 *always* swaps out when it
> system(), which gcc does a lot.  If you set GO32TMP to the ramdrive,
> it will swap gcc out to there instead.

This reminds me of something.  I haven't had much time to work on code to
test whether there is enough swap space to allow a system() call, but I did
notice that if I do a system(), the disk swap file neither shrinks nor
disappears when I exit back to the application.  (It does go away when the
app terminates.)  Is that the way it's supposed to work?  This certainly
doesn't make determining the swap s[ace requirement any easier.