Re: FP13 experiences

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From: Chuck McKinnis
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:00

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The real answer is patchldr.zip (from Daniela) on Hobbes.

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 21:18:46, Mark Ertes <mark.ertes@corecomm.net> wrote:

> "Chuck McKinnis (Chuck McKinnis)" wrote:
> 
> > I'm back to not using all of my 128Mb again.
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> The solution recommended to me was to enable the use of the SWAPPER.DAT file with the following line in CONFIG.SYS:
> MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT
> 
> I also set the initial swap file size at 4MB using this line:
> SWAPPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM 16384 4096
> 
> Theseus reported that OS/2 used more that 64MB of DRAM (my PC has 128MB total) as I loaded successively several large apps, but the size of SWAPPER.DAT didn't change from the initial setting noted above. So even though it was "enabled" it was not yet being used!
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark Ertes

Chuck McKinnis
IBM Senior Systems Engineer (retired)
mckinnis@attglobal.net
http://pws.prserve.net/mckinnis

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