From: "A. Sinan Unur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Meja-slow down Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 07:25:29 -0400 Organization: Cornell University (http://www.cornell.edu/) Lines: 50 Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu (Verified) Message-ID: <3552EBA9.A720FF58@cornell.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: cu-dialup-0911.cit.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk James W Sager Iii wrote: > > > My 'puter is running dirt slow as of late running my DJ ap. > > > It compiles to 4.2 meg. I have 24 meg of memory, and I > > > have already read the FAQ on how to manage my mem. > > > I have a smart drive and a ram drive yet things run > > > omega slow. Eli Zaretskii AT is DOT elta DOT co > > You cannot do without EMM, since your DPMI memory comes out of the > > EMM pool. it seems like he is running under dos, so he can do without emm. > > Can't really say without seeing your current EMM configuration. How > > about sharing with us your EMM command line? > I get the stats 2923kb and 130389kb from the go32-v2 command > I am running in dos. > This is my config.sys: > DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS > DEVICEHIGH=C:\windows\EMM386.EXE /8128 frame=NONE a-hem ... i don't think you can load emm386 high. and unless you are absolutely sure you need the extra parameters, i would get rid of them. > BUFFERS = 80 i cannot imagine needing this setting to be this high. try around 30. but do make sure you have files=50 somewhere. > dos=high,umb > devicehigh=c:\windows\ramdrive.sys 4086 /e > loadhigh=c:\windows\smartdrv 16384 /n/f ok, you have 24 mb total ram. you give smartdrv 16 mb, and ramdrive 4 mb, you are left with a computer with 4 mb total memory. get rid of the ram drive, shrink smartdrv to 2 mb (or maybe 4 if you really want to.) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Sinan Unur Department of Policy Analysis and Management, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA mailto:sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/