[comp.sys.ibm.pc] QEMM and Fast Memory Sorting

Howard.Spindel@p8.f14.n105.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Howard Spindel) (10/26/89)

I am using QEMM on a 386 and am having a problem getting the 
memory sort feature to work the way I want it to.
 
My computer in an IBM AT with an accelerator board. The 
accelerator board provides 2MB of 32bit fast memory starting at 
address 10000H. I have additional (slower, 16 bit) memory 
starting at address 30000H. I need to run a 1.5MB Vdisk and a 1MB 
disk cache. VDISK and the disk cache use memory starting at 
10000H, and QEMM uses memory starting at the maximum memory 
address and moving downwards, so in order to avoid conflicts I 
have told QEMM that EXT=2.5MB so that QEMM does not try to manage 
the memory used by VDISK and the cache.
 
The problem is that when QEMM does not manage a hunk of memory it 
also does not sort that memory by speed.  I would like QEMM to 
swap at least 640K of the fast memory into the base memory rather 
than using my fast memory for a VDISK (which is a total waste).  
I can't find a way to do this.  Anybody have any ideas?  
 
Quarterdeck said "Wait for QEMM 5.0, it might solve your problem" 
but the technical support person didn't know for sure if it 
would.
 
Any and all ideas appreciated.  VDISK and the cache don't want to 
move, and the fast memory on the accelerator board doesn't want 
to move (or at least I don't want to move it now - I'd prefer to 
find another solution).
 
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