From: nostra AT city DOT ac DOT uk (Mark Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: slow dos, fast win95 linking ? Date: 9 Jan 1997 02:40:28 GMT Organization: City University, London Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5b1lqs$3q@bambam.soi.city.ac.uk> References: <32D050A1 DOT 550C AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au> NNTP-Posting-Host: paddington.city.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 6 Jan 1997 01:08:49 GMT, Leath Muller wrote: [stuff deleted] > 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... :) Not /quite/ true. My system is pretty well idle atm. and win'95 has given me a 15 MB disk cache, but I do still have 38 MB of physical memory free, so it doesn't allocate *all* available memory as cache. Mark. - -- .--------------------------{ From: Mark Lewis }--------------------------. Software Engineer | http://www.city.ac.uk/nostra/ City University | PGP public key available by WWW, or by London, England | fingering sl323 AT finger DOT city DOT ac DOT uk `--------{ M DOT Lewis AT city DOT ac DOT uk (MIME) | nostra AT city DOT ac DOT uk (MIME) }---------' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAgUBMtRal7+exwC8S2+xAQG4cgP/XjWfhZ4/M0fGpni7RRKspwdkB0nhIGM7 SO/RrdZL4WguKMEmJ7EzLl/+Qj33TJ4Noj3xBsqWpFGZ19+2BIuPo8NN/u0x/Jk1 rkm5fNgh1Xg8odjNo626FzvrtuTbTHNnxo+AOYNKCnVjIlIbtaOWY+vZEaGKL8x8 xale+vnPS2Y= =8tuz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----