From:	"David W. Coppit" <dwc3q AT mamba DOT cs DOT Virginia DOT EDU>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: slow startup on less (lss332b.zip)
Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:48:49 -0500
Organization:	University of Virginia
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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Incredible!  So what you say is that the "auto" setting was leaving
> less than 3MB of DPMI memory to the programs run inside DOS box?  Can
> you confirm it by restoring the "auto" setting, running go32-v2.exe in
> the DOS box and posting what it prints?
> 
> Until now, it was known that you must change the "auto" setting to get
> to the maximum of 64MB, but AFAIK nobody have ever reported such a
> small amount of memory being available by default.
> 
> How much physical RAM do you have installed on that machine?

I was too hasty in my post. Apparently, the delays are not consistent.
They disappeared temporarily after I mucked around with the memory
settings, but returned a short while later.

For what its worth, I also have significant delays when I run the command
"enscript --help". I've even had it apparently lock up.

There may be some connection with system load. I don't know.

David

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