Message-ID: <cpIF86O00YUn0nlGM0@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed,  6 May 1998 21:44:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: James W Sager Iii <sager+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: Meja-slow down
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Excerpts from mail: 6-May-98 Re: Meja-slow down by Eli Zaretskii AT is DOT elta DOT co 
> > My 'puter is running dirt slow as of late running my DJ ap.
> > It compiles to 4.2 meg.  I have 24 meg of memory, and I
> > have already read the FAQ on how to manage my mem.
> > I have a smart drive and a ram drive yet things run
> > omega slow.
>  
> Please post some memory-usage figures, otherwise how do you expect 
> anybody to help you?  There is no magic wand here.
>  
> What go32-v2 prints, how much memory did you allocate to SmartDrv and the
> RAM disk, approximately how much memory do you expect your program to
> allocate at run time, do you run on DOS or Windows--all these are 
> required to help you efficiently.  Please don't spare us the details. 
>  
> > Like copy critical(which?) files to the ram drive?
>  
> This won't help unless your problem is with reading files from disk.  
> Does your program read a lot?  If not, this is not something that will 
> help.
>  
> > Don't use EMM even though its needed for other aps I use?
>  
> You cannot do without EMM, since your DPMI memory comes out of the EMM 
> pool.
>  
> > Reconfigure EMM?
>  
> Can't really say without seeing your current EMM configuration.  How 
> about sharing with us your EMM command line?
I get the stats 2923kb and 130389kb from the go32-v2 command
I am running in dos.
This is my config.sys:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\windows\EMM386.EXE /8128 frame=NONE
BUFFERS = 80
dos=high,umb
devicehigh=c:\windows\ramdrive.sys 4086 /e

Autoexec.bat is as follows:
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4
SET SOUND=C:\SBPRO
C:\SBPRO\SBP-SET /M:14 /VOC:14 /CD:14 /FM:14
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;\DOS
SET TEMP=e:
SET TMPDIR=e:
loadhigh=c:\windows\smartdrv 16384 /n/f
tc //This line auto sets up stuff for me and runs rhide



If you want any more info, I can provide it....