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Date:- 25 March 2001

1)  Leigh Bunting <lbuntingatcamtech dot net dot au>
       Re: [os2genau] >64M RAM
2)  Leigh Bunting <lbuntingatcamtech dot net dot au>
       Re: [os2genau] >64M RAM
3)  Michael Block <mblockatoptushome dot com dot au>
       Re: [os2genau] More info on 64M RAM
4)  Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au>
       Re: [os2genau] More info on 64M RAM
5)  Daryl Pilkington <u3232athome.dialix dot com>
      Re: [os2genau] More info on 64M RAM

1====================================
"Robert Traynor (BobT)" wrote:

> SOME bios'es in SOME machines, usually produced from about 2 years ago,
> were unable to allow os/2 to see more than the first 64mb of ram.
> This was because these either did not offer a choice of the bios
> memory setting Ed is refering to, or were false in this regard.

My BIOS is dated 29/12/2000 and it definitely doesn't let OS/2 see more that 64Mb.
--
Leigh Bunting
Colonel Light Gardens
South Australia
Find out more about Col. Light Gdns. here -
http://www.cobweb dot com dot au/~pknight/clghs/


2====================================
Ed Durrant wrote:

> There is often a setting in your CMOS for OS2 > 64MB

I see that this BIOS entry started to disappear during last year.
--
Leigh Bunting
Colonel Light Gardens
South Australia
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3====================================
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:08:05 +1100, Craig Brookes wrote:

whilst we are on a memory thing - theseus and sysinfo both
report my TNT2 32MB RAM as 3MB. Does anyone else have this
card and experience? (Warp4 FP15, NVidia drivers)
regards

Michael Block
---------------------------> Caca et declina medicus

http://members.optushome dot com dot au/mblock/perinatal.html
The www home of perinatal psychiatry


4====================================
Hi Craig,
   The machine you have is the one used exclusively at the Nagano Winter
Olympics in 1988 and ceratinly runs OS/2 in 64MB, 128MB and 192MB
configurations. The Nagano Olympics were a "pure OS/2" olympics. The
Sydney Olympics ran a mixture of OS/2, Windows 95 and Windows NT on the
later, PC300GL model however we still used some of the "old" Nagano 
machines for testing applications. Often the older 133/166 MHz machines
out performed the newer 300 MHz machines - explain that ! Any way my
point is the machine you have is certainly OS/2 ready.

   I think the problem you have is that you are running out of Threads
rther than out of ram memory. Check in Config.sys and see what value
is set for THREADS=. It's possibly 512 or 1024 - with your configuration
you can easily increase this to 4095 (the maximum) and you'll probably
see an improvement.  Why don't you always have this problem ? You have
one or more badly written applications which are not realeasing threads
after they have used them. This of course means, by increasing the
number available, we are only delaying the point where the problem will
re-occur, but hopefully you will decide to restart the system for some
other reason before this happens.

  BTW also if Maxwait is set to 3 you can reduce this to 1 on a pentium
system.

  I would trust the information you get from Theseus over non-IBM
utilities (no disrespect to Danni but Theseus is a very good product).By
the way there is an upgrade to WSeB and Convienience pack versions of
OS/2 Warp to handle the new features.

  Regards,

  Ed Durant.      

Craig Brookes wrote:
> 
> The problem is half the time when I boot OS/2 the system seems to come up
> fine, lots of free RAM available, but as I attempt to open applications (I
> have tried the same order of opening applications, etc) the initial ones
> may start but then subsequent applications fail indicating memory
> shortages, lack of 'stack space', etc.  The typical popup is the one that
> asks you to verify the path to the program, or open the program object
> properties.  The EPM editor may already have a file or two open already,
> but then clicking on another file will fail with a popup from EPM
> indicating lack of memory.
> Most applications will now not load.  Cut and Paste from anywhere starts to
> fail due to lack of memory.

4====================================
Hi Craig,

Go to the IBM Netfinity Servers support pages & download the latest
version of NetFinity System Management software, (Manager Version).

Whilst somewhat buggy on certain hardware, it has the ability to log &
display useful tuning parameters like amount of memory used, threads
etc.

It is an excellent tool for problem determination & tuning.
Let me know how you go.

-- 
Regards, 

Daryl  Pilkington 

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