At 10:22 21-8-01, you wrote:
>On 21 Aug 01 at 2:31, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
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>>>> Is there a way (utility) to find out the maximum size of the RAM
>>>> disk on a system after booting to it? What will be the optimum size
>>>> of the RAM in relation to CACHE size and performance.
>>
>>When made my first arachne ramdrive diskette (for a 286 diskless
>>workstation with only 4 mB) I didn't have much of a clue, but was lucky
>>enough to find out that a cache isn't worth anything as you don't have any
>>diskaccess to speed up (or only the diskette read during boot, but that's
>>not a problem if you keep the diskette defragged).
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>Yes, my intention is to put everything on the RAM drive. The lower
>limit will be about 2 MB for a reduced Arachne package.
>But Arachne's CACHE directory will not always fit on the RAM drive.
I think you might do your computer illiterate target group a big favor by
introducing them to their own computers. After all, they are voluntering to
an experiment anyway, and I guess there may be systems who can't
efficiently run fatware among them. So why not write a test.bat which is
supposed to output avail;able diskspace and memory and prompts the user to
write relevant numbers down, to have them at hand when fine-tuning arachne?
Togethewr with an appropriate additional manual on the use of the diskette,
I think it would make the most of arachne's educational value.
>
>But I probably will need disk caching if I set the path of Arachne's
>Cache directory to the hard disk. For instance
>
>8 MB total XMS: Arachne with Cache directory RAM disk, no disk cache
>3 MB total XMS: Arachne on RAM disk, Cache directory on HD,
> disk cache (how much?)
>2 MB total XMS: maximum disk cache, Arachne does not fit on RAM disk?
>
>Please, Clarence, help with this!
>
