On 2 Aug 00 at 23:05, Pete wrote:
>>xSwap is all about mem allocation. My A166 is wholly installed on RD.
>>So why do I get very slight clicks from the HDD near the start of
>>processing large, complex pages? Before final rendering, that is. At
>>first I thought something was working the memory management software...
>>Could it be that some other part of DOS is allocating small ammounts of
>>memory, and that Arachne is unaware of this? But I'm over my head here <g>
I think you are seeing Arachne run your command.com after doing
certain things. You may or may not have seen it, but Arachne will
sometimes crash with the message that it cannot load command.com.
There was some discussion on this list (probably last year) about
this and a recommendation that you configure your system to load
command.com from a floppy. Using this technique you can get a good
idea of how much Arachne accesses command.com.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
P.S. You should be able to prevent any HD access by Arachne by
placing you command.com file on the RAMdisk and configuring your
system to look for it there.
I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted pay checks.
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