From: "Charles Sandmann" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: running DJGPP under DOS Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:47:15 Organization: Aspen Technology, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <39f6f273.sandmann@clio.rice.edu> References: <8011-Wed25Oct2000211427+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> NNTP-Posting-Host: ptdem2.hou.aspentech.com X-Trace: selma.aspentech.com 972504407 32283 10.32.115.117 (25 Oct 2000 20:06:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster AT aspentech DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Oct 2000 20:06:47 GMT X-NewsEditor: ED-1.5.8 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > > >I doubt if you could get a much faster compilation, unless the Windows > > >setup is somehow misconfigured. > > > > Don't forget that winblows suck quite a lot of RAM. > > I didn't forget, but according to my measurements, it takes much less > than 36MB (unless you have a couple of Word documents open ;-). Actually I've seen some systems with so many little widgets running in the system tray area (especially things which get downloaded from the Web, etc) plus Office startup apps, plus management widgets from the PC manufacturer, USB/plug and play recognition widgets, scanner drivers, Realplayer, etc that a 32Mb system had essentially no free memory to run applications without paging. Then the pagefile is hopelessly fragmented and the system is a slug. For example, DELL won't even provide their "proactive support" on systems if you buy then with only 32Mb of memory! Any Win 9x system (or newer) with less than 64Mb of memory may be trouble if improperly configured. (If alt-ctrl-del shows more than 2-3 tasks, who knows how many resources they are really eating up).