Re: [Freedos-user] Dosidle bundled into FreeDOS future releases

[Eric A. <e....@jp...>]

Hi :-)

Glad you noticed that FDAPM APMDOS uses less RAM than DOSIDLE :-)

> Maybe "FDAPM /apmdos" is not included as default because it can slow 
> down some application, am I correct?

In that case, you could use the ADV:xyz options instead of APMDOS,
see the documentation, but I have another theory ;-)

The FreeDOS kernel includes the IDLEHALT config sys option to
get some basic "idle" power saving without using any extra RAM.

So whether you use FDAPM or IDLEHALT depends on how much RAM
you want to spend. Also, as with LBACACHE, CDRCACHE and possibly
Jack's caches and disk drivers (UHDD, UDVD2, UIDE, etc.) there
MIGHT be side effects of loading those high into UMB, so given
how little RAM is used by FDAPM, you MAY prefer to load it low.
Things will work fine when loaded high on MOST systems anyway :-)

Regards, Eric