On 22 Jan 00 at 22:45, arachne-digest wrote:
> From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On some computers I have smartdrv.exe loaded, and I am
> wondering if it really does any good. It's one more item
> that I have to either place in conventional memory or
> load it high.
> l. Does Arachne benefit from smartdrv?
Yes. Any program that does a lot of writing to the disk benfits.
> 2. Is it only for windows programs like Netscape,
> Eudora, etc?
No.
> 3. On machines with only 8 MB ram, is it of more
> value, than say, on a box with 32 MB ram?
Probably equally valuable on both.
> I've attached a mem.txt to this email that shows
> the current setup on this machine.
> Modules using memory below 1 MB:
>
> Name Total =3D Conventional + Upper Memory
> -------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
> MSDOS 17,645 (17K) 17,645 (17K) 0 (0K)
> HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K)
> EMM386 3,120 (3K) 3,120 (3K) 0 (0K)
> COMMAND 3,024 (3K) 3,024 (3K) 0 (0K)
> COMMAND 3,088 (3K) 3,088 (3K) 0 (0K)
> IO 80 (0K) 80 (0K) 0 (0K)
> SETVER 624 (1K) 0 (0K) 624 (1K)
> ONTRACK 5,312 (5K) 0 (0K) 5,312 (5K)
> DMOUSE 17,088 (17K) 0 (0K) 17,088 (17K)
> SMARTDRV 29,024 (28K) 0 (0K) 29,024 (28K)
> EPPPD 70,160 (69K) 0 (0K) 70,160 (69K)
> Free 696,240 (680K) 627,104 (612K) 69,136 (68K)
Don't know why COMMAND appears twice unless you happened to be shelled out
from Arachne or some other app at the time.
This list shows that everything that should be loaded in UMB is so loaded.
You are making good use of memory.
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