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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:47:08 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: The big slow down

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In <200106201337.AA82968700@oco.net>, on 06/20/01
at 01:38 PM, "mrakijas" said:

>OS2.INI is about 1.2MB. OS2SYS.INI is about 550K. Doesn't sound too
>big, does it?

That's small.

>It's only one 128K DIMM. I suppose it could have partially gone bad but
>wouldn't the failure mode have caused more to gone wrong? In the mean
>time, what's the best way to check free mem in OS/2?

How much memory does the BIOS show? Any possiblity the clock to slowed
down?

>Initial size was set to 16MB but it looked like it was getting to 32MB
>during this latest escapade. So I changed the initial size to 32MB and
>that's pretty much where it stayed. No change in performance, though.

With 128MB, I would not expect any swapping at all, unless you are running
lots of apps. Can you hear an unusual amount of disk access?

Open a full screen command prompt and do a DIR /S \. Is that fast or
slow?

If it's not memory, I would suspect a munged video driver. To test this,
reset to VGA and run the "slow" app.

Steven

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