Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/01/17/22:06:36
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> I'm surprised you even succeeded to build and run Emacs with YAMD.
> YAMD increases the memory footprint of a program considerably, and
> Emacs is a very memory-intensive application.
I'm afraid that in the haste of being synthetic in the post I did not
made it all clear...
The application we're debugging is not Emacs. We're using it as editor.
The most noticeable programs with this behaviour are Emacs and (of
course) the gcc.
>
> How much memory does the system have physically installed?
64 Mbytes
>
> (Btw, if you find some problems in Emacs with YAMD, please report
> them.)
As soon I have our problem solved and YAMD well learned, may try it (the
machine owner will lend the resources as a favor ;-)
>
> > It seems to me that the main reason is the lack of a disk cache
> > (SMARTDRV?).
>
> Does the program page to disk a lot? If not, SmartDrv is not your
> problem (although installing it is definitely a good idea).
I'm not an Emacs guru, but I surmise that to call compile, grep, etc.
from within it has to. Doesn't it?
Also, the _loading_ process is by itself visible more slow in plain DOS
than in a Win98 DOS Box.
>
> > Now, does anybody knows how to setup the windows 98 environment so that
> > it runs the neeeded programs when booted in DOS and not in the `normal'
> > mode?
>
> Isn't there an AUTOEXEC.DOS file?
>
> Anyway, there's a special tool in the Start->Programs->System Tools
> dialog (don't remember its name) that allows you to edit system
> files. Also, the DOS box allows you to define an AUTOEXEC.BAT file
> for switching to DOS Mode from Windows.
Will try this as a more canonical way.
Thanks for the help.
Cesar
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