Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel, am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2021 um 02:39 schrieben Sie:
>> On Jun 1, 2021, at 11:10 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Lukas, >> […] >> >>> said it is memory issue and solved also by installing FreeDOS on hard drive >>> in Pentium machine. That's how I did it as well and it works. Even >>> installing a lot of packages on 486, the fdimples will crash with out of >>> memory while browsing packages tree and selecting many packages. >> >> That sounds as if FDIMPLES had too little DOS memory free? > It is related to memory. However, not really tied to how much free > memory is available on his machine. > Like I’ve mentioned many times before… FDIMPLES is just a front end > UI. Actual installation and removal of packages is done by FDINST (part of > the FDNPKG package). > For the end user, this isn’t important. However to install some > really big packages, FDINST requires a lot of low memory. This means > FDIMPLES has to have a very small memory footprint. > FDIMPLES looks simple. However, it correlates multiple pieces of > data. Something like as little as 1 up to about 8 different metadata > files and a handful of other data points for each entry. > All of that is pulled through something that resembles a > prioritized cache. As it runs out of memory, it discards less > important data first then ever more important data until sufficient > memory is available to complete its current task. > Basically with the extreme memory constraints placed on it. > Sometimes, it gets stuck needing some low importance data and is > forced to hold onto or keep recaching the same data. > Just having FDIMPLES reserve more RAM for itself would fix it. But, > then insufficient memory would be available to FDINST to install some of the > really big packages. > The current version of FDIMPLES improved this a lot. But, it still > does happen far to often (like at all). I just need to find the time to > completely resolve it. > With the little RAM it is permitted to consume, I’m often amazed it manages > to work at all. given the fact that FDINST is some sort of glorified UNZIP, you need an amazing amount of words to describe the process. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
