[Freedos-devel] Re: Slowness and calccach

[Alain <al...@po...>]

Hi,

I will keep further discussion in the list, please Eric answer in the 
list too.

>>It is the same with UMBPCI or EMM386.
>>Loading UMDA low, or the /L switch makes no difference.
> 
> Very strange. How about not loading ANY drivers into UMB
> and just enabling UMBs in general (DOS=UMB, umbpci/emm386,
> but no LH or devicehigh or similar...)?

If I don't use DOS=HIGH, UMB are un-accessable! I am not sure if this is 
as expected.

>>>Even more: You could make calccach available for others :-)).
>>I believe it is of little interest no anyone...
> 
> You are, as said, not the first to ask about some automatic way
> of selecting cache sizes, so others should be interested as well.
> Would be nice if you could exchange some ideas with Erwin to come
> up with a wishlist of features that calccach can have in the future.

So here it is, (in the list). What this is about: I made a small 
executable that detects how much XMS is available and ensures that a 
certain amout is kept free.

Alain
PS: I will post a commented maessage of the my config.sys and 
autoexec.bat files that I tuned after many days of testing. It may 
interest someone.