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From: dpayne@isis.cs.du.edu (Dirk Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: QEMM 5.11 + Win3 = long pauses
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.191449.3556@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 30 Dec 90 19:14:49 GMT
Reply-To: dpayne@isis.UUCP (Dirk Payne)
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
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	I have been having some strange problems running QEMM 5.11 with
Windows 3.0. I have a generic 386/33 (that has proven to be very compatible so
far), with 8 megs of RAM, an STB EM-16+ VGA board, and a 315 MB ESDI hard
disk. The hard disk is partitioned for DOS and Unix.

	Here is the problem. Quite frequently Windows will go into a long
sleep (usually 30 to 60 seconds) when QEMM is handling the memory, but
no signs of this when I am running the HIMEM.SYS program that comes with
Win3. In both cases SMARTDRV is loaded with similar parameters, except that
I finally settled on expanded memory for cache with QEMM. To maximize
memory, buffers and DOSED are loaded high. I have experimented with RAM, ROM
and some of the other oblique tuning parameters for QEMM to no avail.

	Here are the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files for the different boot
requirements:

AUTOEXEC.BAT (normal):
@echo off
path=C:\WIN30;c:\dos401;c:\bat;c:\tools;c:\bor2;c:\femacs;c:\msc;c:\clip;
set lib=c:\clip;c:\msc\lib;c:\tcp\lib;
set include=c:\clip;c:\msc\include;
dosed
keyspeed /e
prompt [$p] 
set TEMP=C:\WIN30\TEMP

CONFIG.SYS (normal):
buffers=30
files=30
device=\tools\rapidbio.sys
device=himem.sys
device=\win30\smartdrv.sys 4096 512
shell=c:\dos401\command.com /e:512 /p

AUTOEXEC.QDK (QEMM):
@echo off
path=C:\WIN30;c:\dos401;c:\bat;c:\tools;c:\bor2;c:\femacs;c:\msc;c:\clip;
set lib=c:\clip;c:\msc\lib;c:\tcp\lib;
set include=c:\clip;c:\msc\include;
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 dosed
keyspeed /e
prompt [$p] 
set TEMP=C:\WIN30\TEMP

CONFIG.QDK (QEMM):
DEVICE=\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM ROM
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:3 \WIN30\SMARTDRV.SYS 2048 512 /a
STACKS=0,0
BUFFERS=10/X
FILES=25
SHELL=C:\DOS401\COMMAND.COM /E:512 /P


	Other than the pausing, the system runs well with QEMM. I have not 
experienced any other problems other than the pausing.

	Any ideas? I'm out of 'em!

AdvTHANKSance

Dirk Payne

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