[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dear List:
>
> A very interesting mail from a member on memory optimization.
> <snip>
As I was not that member I'm afraid I can't answer those questions.
But, I will have some of my own :)
> Below are the list of my memory details:
>
>
> --------------------- DOS Usage ---------------------
> DOS reports 639 K-bytes of memory:
> 75 K-bytes used by DOS and resident programs
> 564 K-bytes available for application programs
>
Hello Tom;
That is a quite small amount of low memory available.
What was your reason again for not loading stuff high ?
> *************************
> * DOS Memory Blocks *
> *************************
>
> 0273 1,152 HIMEM Device Driver
> 02BC 3,104 EMM386 Device Driver
> 037F 2,480 SMARTDRV Device Driver
> 041B 2,672 DOS Open Files Table
> 04C3 256 DOS File Control Blocks
That can all go high.
> 04D4 27,632 DOS File Buffers
That's a lot of buffer space. - If you really need it - it can go high.
> 0B94 976 DOS Current Directories
> 0BD2 3,008 DOS Stacks
You can get more space by setting stacks to 0,0 for most applications.
> 0C8F 64 DOS DOS System Area
> 0C94 2,640 COMMAND Program
> 0D3A 64 COMMAND Data
> 0D3F 256 COMMAND Environment
> 0D50 208 WIN Environment
> 0D5E 1,792 WIN Program
> 0DCF 240 win386 Environment
> 0DDF 16,896 win386 Program
If you use a dual boot system, you don't need to load any wincrap when in
DOS mode.
> *****************
> * CPU Speed *
> *****************
>
> This |
> Computer +************************************ 357.1
> |
> INTEL |
> Pentium-66 +********************* 211.4
> |
> INTEL |
> 486DX-33 +******* 71.2
> |
> INTEL |
> 386DX-33 +**** 35.9
> |
> +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+---
> 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550
> Computing Index
>
> Main Processor: 80486SX, 25 MHz
Now that HAS to be a mistake / bug
Your 25Mhz '486SX is 5 times faster than a 33Mhz '486DX ?
I don't think so. :)
> <snip>
>
> buffers=50,2
WAY to many buffers IMHO. If you have too many buffers, you not only waste
memory, you waste time as programs look thru all the buffers before looking
in the cache for items for found.
I hope some of these suggestions turn out to be useful.
At least we can discuss them.
- Clarence Verge
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