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- From: ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho)
- Subject: Re: WPS *MUST* be optimized with regard to memory and *.ini
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.172558.24235@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
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- Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:25:58 GMT
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- Bjorn Fahller (bjorn@ludd.luth.se) wrote:
- :
- : [ ... ]
- :
- : The rest of the files were processed the same way as above. When I was
- : finished, I shredded the plastic bag. After all it contained nearly 16Mb
- : of trash. After getting a new plastic bag, OS2SYS.INI was 10350232 bytes
- : long, and OS2.INI 320905 bytes long. COPYINI pealed down OS2SYS.INI to
- : slim 133281 bytes (on other words there was 77 times as much garbage in
- : it as there was information) and OS2.INI was slimmed to 252116 bytes.
- : The swapfile had grown to 6Mb.
- :
- : I don't think this is the way it should be at all. Something really
- : needs to be done about this.
- : _
- : /Bjorn.
-
- I agree.
- But this might still not be a universal problem. I have a system (486/33 clone)
- with 8 MB RAM, 210 MB HD (more than half full), GA (US) + SP. After 5 months
- of use OS2.INI is 54 kb and OS2SYS.INI 36 kb. SWAPPER.DAT never goes above
- 6 MB, it usually stays at the initial 4 MB set up by the system on boot-up.
-
- Olli
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