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- From: joiner@myria.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 help needed! comm and speed problems, etc.
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- Keywords: os/2
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 03:18:09 GMT
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- In <BuDyJD.KL3@andy.bgsu.edu> jzawodn@bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny) writes:
-
- >Problem #2: Memory and Speed
-
- > I have 20megs of memory but don't need all of it to load
- >applications into. I would like a sizable hard disk cache (2meg
- >or so) to speed up OS/2. Can I do this? How can I do this?
- > There is a line in my config.sys file something to the
- >effect of "DISKCACHE=384,LW" What does that mean? LW?
- > While I'm at it, what do the following lines mean, too (also
- >taken from my OS/2 config.sys):
-
- > THREADS=256
- > MAXWAIT=3
- > PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
- > CODEPAGE=437,850
-
- For each of these CONFIG.SYS commands, type HELP <COMMAND> to get
- online help. This assumes you have loaded the Command Reference
- file (C:\OS2\BOOK\CMDREF.INF).
-
- > In addition, can I have a ramdisk under OS/2? If so, how
- >can I do this? If not, why not?
-
- The ramdisk driver is VDISK.SYS.
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