On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:55:33 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> D**M!!!...... 8,458 HTML atoms.
> On my system:
> Arachne v1.64
> P150
> S3Trio64v+ video (1mb video ram)
> 80MB total Ram (64MB used for Ramdisk)
> Arachne is running totally on that RD (no HDD access at-all)
> Dos memory (KB) 152[+] green
> Reloading http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/06/21/1217242.shtml from
> cache took only 21sec. (images off)
> I then D/Led all of the images. (only 11 of them... 9 GIFs and 2 JPGs)
> Reload from cache still takes only 21sec.
Hmmm.. Do I see a paralell?
XCOPY processes files by reading "en masse" as many as will fit into
the the available memory. If that space shrinks, XCOPY's performance
will drop.
I notice that if free conventional memory falls below 600k, *for me*,
Arachne's performance suffers.
I notice that if space on the RAMdisk falls below 1.5MB, look out.
Remember all those display problems I had while trying to use 16 colors
with a superior video card? I have found that they can be quite easily
reproduced by lowering the free conventional memory. In other words A16x
was using *more* memory then.
Even simple tasks such as sending an e-mail with 500-700k free on the RD
can give the impression that the system has frozen.
And so, I don't think I will ever see much improvement in my
installation untill I get that extra 16MB RAM!
#######Twice the free mem = half the time??#####
---- Pete Randolph ----
---- Morristown Corners, Vermont ----
-- Arachne V1.64, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
