Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:57:32 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Allegro: slow install_sound() and compile on 486
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On 25 Nov 2001, Jabez McClelland wrote:

> My system is now set up according to FAQ 3.9:
> 
> - EMM386 has "ram", "frame=none",  "noems",  novcpi"  switches
> - All drivers in autoexec.bat and config.sys loaded high
> - smatrdrv set with +c 1048
> - on boot, there is about 570k free conventional memory and 7 Mb total
> free memmory.
> 
> install_sound() still takes exactly 45 seconds to execute.  There is
> absolutely no disk activity during this wait.  It's exactly as if
> there were a sleep(45) command in the code somewhere.

In that case, it sounds like an Allegro issue.  I'll let Allegro gurus to 
chime in.

I hope at least your compilations are faster now ;-)