At 11:07 �� 8/2/2002 +0100, you wrote: >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).
That's my point exactly... but from what I understand from Dickens, memory allocation happens ONLY during startup... After that the memory I think becomes too fragmented and QDOS doesn't allow you to mess with it... I believe there was something relevant mentioned by Marcel in ql-users Phoebus >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 > > >-- >______________________________________________________________________ >powered by Q60 * Motorola 68060 / 80 MHz * 80 MB RAM * 30 GB Hard Disk
