konc wrote:appiah4 wrote:
My question though is, why does my DOS have such a huge memory footprint (38K) while some people's DOS footprints are in the 9K-18K range? What is bloating the amount loaded into Conventional Memory?
Files, buffers, lastdrive, stacks, all those and similar add to the "MSDOS" entry. REM them out temporarily to see the difference
Which settings should I change to minimize that? What would your suggestions for things like stacks, files, buffers etc. be?
tayyare wrote:"MS-DOS is resident n high memory area" at the last line of MEM output means that you already successful about loading MS-DOS in […]
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"MS-DOS is resident n high memory area" at the last line of MEM output means that you already successful about loading MS-DOS in ..well, high memory area. 🤣
I suggest using MEMMAKER. It sets my systems up generally better than what I can manually do. With all those extra commands like stacks, files, shell, last drive etc, it is not that uncommon to have a larger foot print.
Here is a good read: http://www.mdgx.com/mem6.htm
Just a question: Why do you have so many drivers in your CONFIG.SYS regarding Soundblaster? Except the one that runs CTCM, all other three SB related lines are unnecessary I think.
I've already tried memmaker, it has done absolutely nothing 😀 As for the SB AWE32, I believe the lines are for:
CSB, STSB16 and CTMMSYS drivers were added to CONFIG.SYS by the AWE32 install CD. CSP driver is required for ASP. CTSB16 is required for SB16 emulation (I think, someone will likely correct me on this), as for CTMMSYS which is required for the PLAY.EXE software from Creative. All the lines in AUTOEXEC.BAT were also added by the installer. AWEUTIL /S initializes the card and sets global reverb and chorus, eats up no memory, MIXERSET prepares the mixer and eats up no memory, and CTCU is needed for PnP.
So yeah I could remove the CTSB16 and CTMMSYS drivers for a gaming-only configuration but that's not what I want to do.. My main issue is that MS-DOS footprint in conventional memory is too high.
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