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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Does anyone know...Swap File
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.191456.27843@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 19:14:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.113929.24743@ousrvr.oulu.fi> ojtv@phoenix.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho) writes:
- >David Charlap (dic5340@hertz.njit.edu) wrote:
- >: With a 16MB system, probably less than 4MB in most cases. Remember
- >: that DOS apps consume about 1MB each, plus any XMS or EMS memory they
- >: choose to use. An OS/2 BBS program will use less, since it will only
- >: get what it needs instead of an entire virtual-8088 worth.
- >
- >I have an 8 MB system with GA+SP. The swapper.dat is initially 4 MB and in
- >most cases it stays that way. I've seen it grow to 6 MB in actual use but
- >it shrinks quite nicely when the demands for memory get smaller.
- >As an example of a worst case scenario (for me at least) I have now
- >Ckermit, Win-OS2 with Word for Windows 2.0, WordPerfect 5.1, Quattro pro 4.0
- >and Turbo C++ 3.1 running and the swap file is 7 MB.
-
- I guess my apps push OS/2 further than yours. I ALWAYS have DINFO,
- Clock, Alarms, and Daily Planner running. This gives me an initial
- swap file of about 3MB.
-
- When developing software, I open a CMD.EXE session and run GNU Emacs
- in it. This bootst the swapfile up to about 5MB. If I open up the PM
- Reference .INF file, it grows to 6MB. It will then spike
- (temporarilly) to 8 or 9MB when I call gcc/2 to compile working code.
- When I quit all the apps, it usually returns to about 5MB.
-
- If I happen to start a WIN-OS2 session while all this stuff is
- running, the swapfile sometimes approaches 12MB.
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