Date:	Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:58:11 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Skip Sopscak <dsopscak AT mote DOT ml DOT org>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: drdos config
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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Skip Sopscak wrote:

> > What does go32-v2 report when you invoke it without arguments?
> 
> It reports the following:
> 
>     DPMI memory available: 4931 Kb
>     DPMI swap space available: 130325 Kb
> 
> which is, I suppose, what I'd expect given 8M total RAM and a 2M nwcache.

Yes.

Does a trivial C program, like ``hello world'' in hello.c, compile
significantly faster?

Also, please add -v to the gcc command line and tell which of the
compiler passes invoked by gcc takes most of the time.

> If I adjust the cache down to 1M, DPMI memory reported above goes up
> accordingly, but compile performance doesn't really change...

Please post your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT here, it might be that
you didn't set up the disk cache in an optimal way.

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