Ricsi and Clarence,
Thanks for the tips. I'll try them. It's been a couple of years since
I tried changing anything. I'll admit to not understanding files,
stacks or buffers. My config.sys evolved from advice here on the list
some time ago and much of it was set up by memmaker.
Smartdrv is not in my autoexec.bat because of a book I read and it
works this way. I used 4 megs for the cache because of the
reccomendation in the MS documenation.
But I'm going to try all these changes and see what happens.
Where would I get Norton Speedisk and speedcheck.bat?
What's highscan?
Thanks for your help. We'll see what happens. My autoexec.bat is
attached.
Anybody else care to chime in? Additional opinion would also be
appreciated.
On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 22:41:21 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
wrote:
> Hi
> 08 Feb 2001, "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SE> Maybe it's time to ask for a checkup of my config.sys-- I'm using
> SE> MS-DOS 6.22 on a 386dx33 with 8 megs and want to optimize for
> SE> Arachne.
>> DEVICE=C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /N 4096 0 /E:1024 /V
> why not put this into autoexec.bat and use LH
> 4 MB is a bit too much IMHO (2 MB would be enogh, if you only have 8 MB)
>> DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
> you could add /numhandles=64 and /testmem:off
>> DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF
> you can try highscan ...
> if your computer locks, take it out again. (it's more aggressive, so you
> will either have more ram, or your computer will hang ;)))
>> BUFFERS=5,0
>> FILES=75
> IMHO 50 files is more than enough
>> DOS=UMB
>> LASTDRIVE=E
>> FCBS=4,0
>> SHELL=C:\command.com /P/e:512
>> DEVICEHIGH /L:1,12048 =C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
> leave out the /L stuff ...
>> DOS=HIGH
>> STACKS=9,256
> leave this out completely ...
> (in the rare case of you havibg problems, put it back)
> And your autoexec.bat ?
Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan
USA
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
autoexec.bat
