On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 22:54:58 +0100
Arnould Nazarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> > Well at startup SMS (and QDOS) start allocating space for Slave blocks 
> > in order to access faster files that are constantly being used.
> > Upon the end of the operation, this space is not returned to the OS 
> > though. 
> 
> 
> I do not believe this. In fact I believe the contrary. Slave blocks are
> in fact transiently used by QDOS, but they are free RAM space for all
> the other activities in the system.
> 
> Arnould

This is true Arnould, otherwise one could not circumvent the slave block problem by 
wasting real mem (ie allocating mem only for purpose of not having slaving slowing 
down file accesses).
BTW The problem mentioned above  still seems to be a Windoze problem, this is my 
impression when I have to uses it at work (sigh).

Claus


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