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
>
>
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