Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/07/08/11:18:00
Boon van der RJ (rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl) wrote:
: >Not really. I use a program that is a combined disk cache AND ramdisk. It
: >shares the memory dinamically between the cache and the ramdisk. If I
: >allocate 5 Megs of XMS for this program I have a virtually 5 Megs
: >large ramdisk and a virtually 5 Megs large cache. The rest from my 16 Megs
: don't you restrict that ^^^^^^^^ to about 2 or 3MB max?
As I said it dinamically shares the memory between the cache and the ramdisk
(So if you have some files on the ramdisk which occupy 1 Meg, then you will
have a 4 Megs large cache. If you delete a file from the ramdisk, Combi will
use its memory as cache, and if you copy a file to the ramdisk, it will
decrease the size of the cache).
: But still DJGPP uses tmp-files, which can be stored on a reasonably large
: ram-drive (at least 3Meg) And than a (2meg) cache for the hard-drive.
: I dare to say that DJGPP got faster after adding the ram-drive. Even with
: only 12 MB of RAMspace. (I think I read a recommendation for my
: configuration somewhere in the FAQ (only it said 16meg of RAM))
Yes it's really faster.
: >Ps: This program is called COMBI. Search for combi118.zip (or similar) if
: >interested.
: I have tried it, too bad it didn't work on my pc (something about DosVersions
: and plain crashes).
There is a command line switch, which will disable this version check
(read the docs!)
It works fine with MSDOS 6.22.
Bye, ML
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