Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:11708 comp.sys.novell:1233 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!milton!serval!yoda.eecs.wsu.edu!ckinsman From: ckinsman@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Chris Kinsman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: Windows on diskless workstations Message-ID: <1991Apr20.011102.26644@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: 20 Apr 91 01:11:02 GMT Article-I.D.: serval.1991Apr20.011102.26644 References: <1991Apr18.015949.26790@npd.Novell.COM> <1991Apr18.162708.20756@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1991Apr19.012141.19679@npd.Novell.COM> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University Lines: 36 In article <1991Apr19.012141.19679@npd.Novell.COM> jlamb@seneca.npd.Novell.COM (Jason "Nematode" Lamb) writes: >I do stand corrected. Swapping can be turned off for 386 Enhanced mode... > >If there's anyone out there who's seriously considering doing it,... don't. > >(Or at the minimum, TEST it first. Then you will know the true meaning of >suffering for your art....) > >Ditto for anyone considering using 512K for a swapping ramdisk (in 386 Enh >mode). > >(I know this sounds crazy, but sometimes the manual will state actual truths >and garnish them with an inordinate amount of optimism...) > I don't know where you come up with your don't. It is not an absolutism. It depends on the machine. On a machine with 16 meg of RAM you are better turning off the swapfile. Why? Because you couldn't utilize much more than 16 meg in windows without running out of system resources and by turning it off you actually increase the available resources and increase performance. On a 4 meg machine however you would be foolish to turn it off because you can easily use more than the 4 meg of REAL ram you have. 512K is not a bad size (actually a little small if you are printing 300 dpi graphics to a laser) for a ramdisk to set your temp variable to. I would not swap in 386EM mode to it however. I think you would be better off with the real memory in 386EM. In real and standard mode a 512K-1024K ramdisk with the TEMP variable set to it is better. Chris -- Chris Kinsman KINSMAN@WSUVM1 Washington State University 22487863@WSUVM1 Computing Service Center ckinsman@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu Computing Resources Laboratory 76701.154@compuserve.com