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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:51:00 +0000
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Subject: Re: EMM386 limiting memory to 32Mb
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ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg) wrote:

> Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) (salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar) wrote:
> : Abouthe ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg) reply to Eli:
> :   You are lossing the point. What Eli says is that you must have X Mb 
> 
> You mean missing, don't you?

I guess that's the right way to express it, but I mean a little bit 
different thing. Anyways.
 
> : of swap, he says that X Mb is the better choice. (or at least I
> : interpret that ;-)
> 
> Uhm, I don't understand what you saying here. Can you clarify?

What Eli says is a recommendation. Isn't mandatory. Is just a minimal 
limit. If you are under this limit the degradation of the speed will 
be too important.
 
> :   Normally you must put some limits to the relation
> : between: Physical/Virtual to avoid huge performance degradations.
> :   As an example: Windows 3.1 sets a maximun value, you can enlarge
> : the swap even further, but Windows won't use it.
> :   CWSDPMI doesn't have any  limit, that's good because you can
> : compile a program that needs 128 Mb of RAM with only 16 Mb. But if
> : you need to do it very often a good minimal limit is:  48Mb of RAM
> : and 80Mb of swap. Of course you can do it with 16/112, not
> : recommended at all.
> 
> Well, what you're saying, supports my point: if you have more meory
> you need less swap. If what you're saying don't, you need to explain
> further.

Of course, but that doesn't invalidate what Eli says!
 
> Of course if the system slows down to be almost useless, you might
> take that as a hint that you need more RAM.

Ok, but: what Eli says is that normally a good ratio is .... In this 
way you don't need to go and try if that's slow or not. And that's 
from experience using djgpp programs. Eli have years of experience 
and can make recommendations about. That's all.

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