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- From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: adding more memory
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.1480.22687@dosgate>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 22:14:06 EST
- Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
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- 07-21-92 07:24 - Peter Vonkaenel wrote to All re: Adding more memory
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- PV> My current system is a 486/33 with 4mg of memory. When I installed
- PV> OS/2 I knew that some day I would be adding more memory, so I decided
- PV> to install HPFS since I didn't want to have to re-install. Well, some
- PV> day has come and soon I will have 16mb. I know that I must change the
- PV> initial size of the swapfile (listed in the config.sys), but I don't
- PV> know what I should change it to. So could someone out there please
- PV> let me know how large a swapfile I should have? Also, is there
- PV> anything else I should change so that the system will make better use
- PV> of the new memory?
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- I changed the second number to 0, and my swapfile stays consistently
- around the 1<->2 MB area. I'm not sure why, since I'm not running
- very many things at this point... anyone have an explanation?
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- With the extra memory, you can probably afford a larger cache.
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- If you're using HPFS, change the /CACHE:xx in the IFS=HPFS... line
- to 2048 (the largest HPFS supports -- oh yeah, while I'm here,
- does anyone know _why_ you can't use more than 2 MB of memory for
- HPFS caching??)
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- Change DISKCACHE=xx,yy to something respectable like 1024,32 or
- even more if you like.
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- kenneth.tam@canrem.com
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