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Article #2990Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: WILLIAM C YU
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 19:04
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 19:04
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Shane Kuntz (crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com) wrote: : I've seen in a couple different sources that the PC has very bad memory : management. When it starts paging to it's hard drive it continues to do so : even if real memory has freed up. This was with 3.1 so it may have been a The problem here is that both VM and the disk cache is adjustable by the system. So if you don't set limits to either, the disk cache starts to take over as much memory as it can and pushes programs to VM. For Win95, a simple change to the SYSTEM.INI solves this problem: [vcache] MinFileCache=2048 MaxFileCache=2048 (Or, you could set a limit to VM which would then force Win95 to automatically decrease the disk cache when it started to run out of memory.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!csus.edu!taurus!will_yu From: will_yu@sfsu.edu (WILLIAM C YU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Date: 23 Jan 1996 19:04:02 GMT Organization: San Francisco State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <4e3bf2$aal@news.csus.edu> References: <4cf46j$1ev4@hopi.gate.net> <30ED06B8.2D83@mts.se> <DKuFyA.D52@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <4csn1n$klb@macshack.com> <DKxzFK.2r6@eskimo.com> <4d0ih0$8nk@steel.interlog.com> <4d6ouc$77h@info1.sdrc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: will_yu@taurus.sfsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]