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From: rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Boon van der RJ)
Subject: Re: Bug in stubify.c
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 10:14:36 GMT
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Molnar Laszlo (s0052mol AT sun10 DOT vsz DOT bme DOT hu) wrote:
>Dominique Micollet (dmicolet AT u-bourgogne DOT fr) wrote:
>:Today, I think that using a ramdisk which DJGPP is not a good idea because
>:the consumed memory is lost for DJGPP : the program will swap more
>:frequently.
>:Am I right on this last point ?

>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?
>can be used by DJGPP.
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))

hth,
 Robert

>Bye, ML
>
>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).