Ben Hood wrote:
>
> On Saturday, Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
>
> ] Initially, with everything possible loaded high (without the help of QEMM)
> ] I could only get 630,528 bytes free which was apparantly not enough for
> ] Arachne 1.60b1 because inbox.dgi would give me the "cannot make $IDX$cnm.idx"
> ] message. My altM popup said I had 127 [+] DOS kb.
>
> I have 626,624 bytes free and I can always view mail. But then I
> don't use insight to handle all my mail at once - usually only a
> couple at a time; but once I did press "I" when I'd downloaded about
> 40 messages, no problems. And I still do things like
> file:///c:/inet/mail/araclist/*.mes and have like 300+ messages there.
>
> ] For those of you with a similar problem, I got more free memory by setting my
> ] stacks to 0,0 in config.sys. This gave me 633,552 bytes free and Arachne then
> ] was able to run Insight and make the index. I now have 130 [+] DOS kb.
>
>
> I have 124[+] free.
>
> I am running MS-DOS 6.22... There would probably be benefits using
> DR-DOS (which I use in other computers I own) but "If it ain't broke,
> why fix it?"
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Modules using memory below 1 MB:
>
> Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory
> -------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
> MSDOS 18,877 (18K) 18,877 (18K) 0 (0K)
> HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K)
> EMM386 4,144 (4K) 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K)
> COMMAND 4,272 (4K) 4,272 (4K) 0 (0K)
> CTMOUSE 6,464 (6K) 0 (0K) 6,464 (6K)
> ANSI 4,208 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,208 (4K)
> POWER 4,640 (5K) 0 (0K) 4,640 (5K)
> IFSHLP 3,936 (4K) 0 (0K) 3,936 (4K)
> SMARTDRV 26,720 (26K) 0 (0K) 26,720 (26K)
> SHARE 16,944 (17K) 0 (0K) 16,944 (17K)
> DOSKEY 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,144 (4K)
> EPPPD 70,160 (69K) 0 (0K) 70,160 (69K)
> Free 680,736 (665K) 626,624 (612K) 54,112 (53K)
Hi Hoody;
I don't understand how you can read mail with Arachne 1.60b1 having 124 kb [+]
and I needed 130 kb [+] to do the same thing - at least the FIRST time.
It wasn't a lot of mail. But, I just tested again (set back to 127 kb) and
had NO problem with 9 messages - surely about the same I had before.
I even deleted *.idx in temp and it STILL worked !
I guess what I really mean is I don't understand why it works sometimes and not
other times.
I'm sure more low memory is good for Arachne so here is what I get with DOS 6.20
and stacks set to 0,0 and fcbs at 4,0:
Modules using memory below 1 MB:
Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory
-------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
MSDOS 13,773 (13K) 13,773 (13K) 0 (0K)
HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K)
EMM386 3,120 (3K) 3,120 (3K) 0 (0K)
COMMAND 3,664 (4K) 3,664 (4K) 0 (0K)
KEYFAKE 768 (1K) 0 (0K) 768 (1K)
QUICKEYS 576 (1K) 0 (0K) 576 (1K)
SKN 103,888 (101K) 0 (0K) 103,888 (101K)
CED 22,080 (22K) 0 (0K) 22,080 (22K)
RAMDRIVE 1,200 (1K) 0 (0K) 1,200 (1K)
NANSI 3,280 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,280 (3K)
SMARTDRV 29,024 (28K) 0 (0K) 29,024 (28K)
Free 664,000 (648K) 633,504 (619K) 30,496 (30K)
I can see that you would benefit from using Nansi instead of Ansi in 2 ways.
It is obviously smaller and it has no limit on the size of any re-mapping.
I wonder why your smartdrive is smaller than mine ? (Doesn't effect low mem)
I normally use CHKDSK to give me a free memory report because MEM is not
available in DOS 3.3. It gives a slightly different number for free memory:
Volume MS-DOS_6 created 1998/09/13 14:15
104,843,264 bytes total disk space
79,872 bytes in 2 hidden files
112,640 bytes in 48 directories
23,543,808 bytes in 1,203 user files
81,106,944 bytes available on disk
2,048 bytes in each allocation unit
51,193 total allocation units on disk
39,603 available allocation units on disk
655,360 total bytes memory
633,552 bytes free
- Clarence Verge
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