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In message Tue, 28 Feb 1995 07:45:04 -0800 (PST), <dvchan@netcom.com> writes: > Hi all! Getting my 32 mb upgrade on Thurs :). I was wondering...is it > possible to set up a 22 mb RAM disk under OS/2, stack that w/ stacker, > then point my virtual memory swapper to that, effectively stacking my > RAM? A program on the Mac, RAM doubler seems to do a similar thing... RAM doubler on the Mac works because the Macs use a really strange (many would say stupid) memory allocation method. When you start a Mac app, it grabs as much memory as you've set it to (via info, command-i). It doesn't matter if the app only needs 1MB, if you've set it for 10MB because it might need 10MB some time, it'll grab 10MB. RAM doubler takes back the unused portion of allocated memory, "fixing" a problem that doesn't exist under OS/2. The maximum size ramdisk OS/2 allows is 32MB. I don't know if you can point the swapper to it, I don't know if you can get Stacker to stack it, I don't know if it'll help or hurt performance. - John who's gotten too many "out of memory" errors on a 16MB Quadra. ______________________________________________________________________ |\ _____________________________________________________________________\ | | | | | John H. Kim "Um ... no." -- Outfielder Darryl Strawberry's | | | jokim@mit.edu hesitant reply when asked by a judge if he | | | jokim@uni.uiuc.edu had taken drugs in the past few days. | \|______________________________________________________________________|