Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEM - EMM386 Bug 1
> > Use X=TEST > As a suggestion from Eric I also tried X=A000-EFFF to completely disable UMBs. But that didn't do. It only works if I completely disable EMM386. That shows that the error is not be looked for in HIMEM. > Disk I/O will always run slower under virtual 8086 mode, present and active > by definition with EMM386. HIMEM has nothing to do with it, and that > entire topic should be removed from the discussion as irrelevant. Memory > managers should not enjoy inaccurate benchmarks by piggybacking them off > the actual benefits of other utilities -- UMBPCI in this case. O.K. Then let us forget the benchmarking. I had a try on some other PCs that morning. I discovered that EMM386 works much better than I expected. I did use HIMEM/EMM386 until let's say the middle of last year. At this time I felt it would be better to use Jack's and Uwe's files because I really was frustrated about EMM386 crashing the whole machine very often when loading other device drivers in UMB. But today it wasn't like this, I must say The only thing I discovered so far is, that EMM386 has got problems with the Microsoft network client. On many machines everything worked fine and till now I only discovered a Pentium 4 2,8 GHz with onboard Intel Pro 1000 ethernet card were the network client stops responding while trying to get an ip address over DHCP. Norbert. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEM - EMM386 Bug 1
At 09:31 AM 7/25/2006 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote: >As promised detailled error description... > >PC description: >Intel Pentium III 600 MHz >256K Cache >ASUS P2B Motherboard (Intel 440BX Chipset, AWARD ACPI Bios Rev. 1012) >384 MB SDRAM (133 MHz) > >3COM 309B 10/100 PCI Ethernet Adapter > >Config.sys commands for HIMEM/EMM386: >DEVICE=\HIMEM.EXE /TESTMEM:ON >DEVICE=\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-D800 Use X=TEST I'm not convinced /TESTMEM does anything terribly useful, although the people who originally wrote the option or who use it may disagree with my personal opinion there. Disk I/O will always run slower under virtual 8086 mode, present and active by definition with EMM386. HIMEM has nothing to do with it, and that entire topic should be removed from the discussion as irrelevant. Memory managers should not enjoy inaccurate benchmarks by piggybacking them off the actual benefits of other utilities -- UMBPCI in this case. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] HIMEM - EMM386 Bug 1
As promised detailled error description... PC description: Intel Pentium III 600 MHz 256K Cache ASUS P2B Motherboard (Intel 440BX Chipset, AWARD ACPI Bios Rev. 1012) 384 MB SDRAM (133 MHz) 3COM 309B 10/100 PCI Ethernet Adapter Config.sys commands for HIMEM/EMM386: DEVICE=\HIMEM.EXE /TESTMEM:ON DEVICE=\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-D800 Error Description: With VDS on Machine completely hangs when trying to logon to w2k-domain with Microsoft Network Client 3.0 With VDS off network initialisation is interrupted when loading netbind, saying hardware failure It seems that I/O for Floppy and ramdisk is slower than using QHIMEM and UMBPCI QHIMEM/UMPBPCI: no error HIMEM.SYS/EMM386.EXE (Microsoft) on DOS6.22: no error Michael, how can I help you to find out what is wrong? Norbert. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
