Hello all, On some computers I have smartdrv.exe loaded, and I am wondering if it really does any good. It's one more item that I have to either place in conventional memory or load it high. l. Does Arachne benefit from smartdrv? 2. Is it only for windows programs like Netscape, Eudora, etc? 3. On machines with only 8 MB ram, is it of more value, than say, on a box with 32 MB ram? I've attached a mem.txt to this email that shows the current setup on this machine. Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi --Arachne 1.50 on AMD 486DX4-120 16MB Ram 2GB HDD-- -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
Modules using memory below 1 MB: Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- MSDOS 17,645 (17K) 17,645 (17K) 0 (0K) HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K) EMM386 3,120 (3K) 3,120 (3K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,024 (3K) 3,024 (3K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,088 (3K) 3,088 (3K) 0 (0K) IO 80 (0K) 80 (0K) 0 (0K) SETVER 624 (1K) 0 (0K) 624 (1K) ONTRACK 5,312 (5K) 0 (0K) 5,312 (5K) DMOUSE 17,088 (17K) 0 (0K) 17,088 (17K) SMARTDRV 29,024 (28K) 0 (0K) 29,024 (28K) EPPPD 70,160 (69K) 0 (0K) 70,160 (69K) Free 696,240 (680K) 627,104 (612K) 69,136 (68K) Memory Summary: Type of Memory Total = Used + Free ---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Conventional 655,360 28,256 627,104 Upper 191,344 122,208 69,136 Reserved 393,216 393,216 0 Extended (XMS) 15,537,296 2,335,888 13,201,408 ---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Total memory 16,777,216 2,879,568 13,897,648 Total under 1 MB 846,704 150,464 696,240 Largest executable program size 627,008 (612K) Largest free upper memory block 68,928 (67K) MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
