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Date:	Thu, 4 Nov 1999 07:23:12 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: More Q's on tuning OS/2 for legacy DOS

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Wirtz, Paul wrote:
>
> Less overhead for the memory manager, also I
> believe it uses 64k pages instead of 16k pages,
> so there is less page swapping into low memory.

Okay, thanks.

> For the best performance I still think you
> should use a OS/2 ram disk and forget about all
> this DOS stuff to tune it. Isn't there a OS/2
> ramdrive, besides the ramdrive IFS?

There are OS/2 RAM drives on Hobbes, I believe, and I'll use one if I
have any trouble with the DOS one. I just searched Hobbes and found
these two:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/filesys/ramfs64.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/svd117.zip

Thanks, Paul. :)

- Peter

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