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- From: greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve)
- Subject: Re: CSD-First Looks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.181925.9544@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
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- Organization: University of Bonn, phys. Chemistry
- References: <1992Oct31.015527.72514@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Nov1.000725.16514@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:19:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov1.000725.16514@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- >STACY JOHN BEHRENS (sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu) wrote:
- >Actually, if you have an ISA bus it is swapping. It uses the memory above
- >16MB for swap space because it can't do DMA transfers to disk above 16MB.
- >You'll notice your swapper.dat is at its minimum and the delays while
- >swapping to memory are certainly much shorter than those to disk.
- It depends. IDE drives are not served by DMA and thus can swap even
- above 16MB. I have tested it and it works: when i have 16MB, 4os2
- reports 5MB free after bootup. After installing 24MB, 4os2 reports
- 13MB free memory. This was after applying the gt16MB patch and
- continued to work after the SP.
- --
- - Thomas
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