From: Cesar Rabak Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Environment setting for running DJGPP in plain DOS in Win9x Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:11:30 -0200 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3A679442.28664C59@uol.com.br> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 200-221-14-196.dsl-sp.uol.com.br (200.221.14.196) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 979866742 13127421 200.221.14.196 (16 [39218]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I'm confused. Are you saying that running some program built with YAMD > slows down Emacs? Sorry if I'm confusing... writing at 11:00PM may be part of the cause. . . No. I'm not saying that. The reason that motivates the use of plain DOS was the needs of YAMD. Once in this environment, we started to notice the difference in performance. > > I'm not an Emacs guru, but I surmise that to call compile, grep, etc. > > from within it has to. Doesn't it? > > No. Paging is done by the DPMI host, or by the underlying OS, not by the > DJGPP application. The DPMI host will only cause paging when it doesn't > have available memory to satisfy the currently active program's requests. > > In other words, if you have enough free memory to hold both Emacs and > what's running under it, no paging should be visible. OK. > > > Also, the _loading_ process is by itself visible more slow in plain DOS > > than in a Win98 DOS Box. > > If this is a ccompanied by the disk LED being constantly ON, it means > that you need a disk cache. Yes it accompanied of the LED and the noise of the disc working. I'm after the disk cache operating when in plain DOS as per this thread instructions.