tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk) (02/12/91)
The News Manager) Nntp-Posting-Host: na Reply-To: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk) Organization: Novell, Inc. San Jose, California References: <26709@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Distribution: global Date: Sun, 10 Feb 1991 03:40:28 GMT In article <26709@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes: >Assuming a 386 w/VGA and 8MB of RAM total, and alloting 3MB to play with.... >Which is best (i.e. faster and/or more efficeint) >Using a 3MB disk cache in EXT mem >Setting aside a RAM drive for the Swapfile You can't set up a permanent swapfile on a RAMDRIVE, so that idea is dead before you try it. You can, however, set up temp directory there. I don't know if 3Mb disk cache is going to make a lot of difference as compared to 2Mb, but I use 3Mb anyway (similar configuration to yours). Then again, I don't use too many apps in Windows, so it doesn't bother me that 3Mb is gone. Definitely set up a permanent swapfile on your hard drive. 6-7Mb is usually about enough. Having said it all, it will still be slow. It's Windows. Tony