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In article <92Sep07.052301.19987@acs.ucalgary.ca>, hyu@acs.ucalgary.ca (Hongwei Yu) writes:
> I happened to find out the same thing occurred to a Powerbook 145.
> My friend recently bought a Powerbook 145 and Excel 4.0.  The
> Powerbook has 4 MB physical RAM on it.  He turned on the VM and
> increased the total RAM to 6 MB.  To run the add-in from Excel 4.0,
> it usually takes about 3-5 min.  Once he turned off the VM,
> everything seems to be normal. 
> 
Ok. I think I've found what seems to be a tenuous link between the number of
fonts opened as external resources (ie: using carpetbag) and the time it
takes Excel to load the add-in when running under Virtual Memory. The more
fonts (especially > 150 fonts, including individual NFNT, sfnt, etc.)
This slowdown does not occur when VM is NOT used.

I don't know if this is the cause, but when the number of fonts opened in
such a way is reduced, the time it took decreased as well (from 5 min to 2 min)


This is rather strange!!?

By the way, thanks to those who offered suggestions, such as to check for
other inits (eg: autodoubler and compressed program files), making sure there
is enough RAM to fit the System and Excel, trying to make the VM file
contiguous, etc. I don't think those factors were involved at all, although
they could affect the performance of VM in general.

t.c.

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