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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Alejandro Lieber wrote:

> On 17 Jan 05 at 15:36, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Alejandro Lieber wrote:
> >
> > > I transferred my 10Mby BL3 loop to hda2 in a 8Mbytes 486DLC.
> > > MidNight Commander and Mutt are included. No X.
> > >
> > >
> > > These are the results:
> > >
> > >                             Loop            hda2
> > >
> > > Loading time              22 secs          17 secs
> > > Free (used)               6052 Kbytes      3596 Kbytes
> > >      (free)                980 Kbytes      3436 Kbytes
> > >
> > > It seems that working in loop, nearly 2500 Kbytes more memory is
> > > required.
> >
> > I cannot duplicate your results.  I get the following for FREE using
> > mem=3M in my loadlin line (or similarly for 8M):
> >
> >     TOTAL   USED    FREE    SHARED  BUFFERS
> > loop    1716    1468    248 480 360
> >
> > hd  1716    1516    200 484 144
> > I had several modules automatically loaded (ppp, slh, parport,
> > parport_pc).
>
> I also have several modules automatically loaded.
> Midnight Commander is also loaded automatically to tty2.
>
> To compare with what I get, I think you should try with 8Mby of
> memory.

I did that too and it was similar:

I ended my boot batch file with mem=8M on a fast computer with lots of RAM 
normally)

        TOTAL   USED    FREE  SHARED BUFFERS
loop    6784    6456    328     484     4432
hd      6784    6556    228     484     4464

With this larger amount of RAM it is an extra 100K used.  But not 2500K.
The hd version gives you 50% more free RAM so it is definitely a good idea 
to use the ext2 BL3 on computers with little RAM.

Perhaps the difference gets larger as you load more modules and programs.

> Sindi, don't you have a keyboard module loaded ?
> In what country are you ?

No,I live in the USA and my native language is English.  I translate into 
English from Slavic languages so I need to have the screen fonts but I 
don't type in those languages.  I can read a few other languages too: a 
little bit of Spanish, German, some French, a bit of Italian (I studied 
Latin) and Dutch (I read grammar books) and I studied but forgot Romanian, 
Turkish, Greek, Sanskrit, Classical Armenian, Hittite (with Lydian, Luwian 
and Lycian).  I can speak a little Albanian.  But I write letters by hand 
or in Latin alphabet if they are not in English.  I would like to be able 
to type Russian and Czech.

So far we have gotten Christof's printer fonts to print but they are 
shifted half a space to the right, on an Epson PS/ESC Stylus 800.  The 
command to load the downloadable fonts does not work on my Panasonic 
KXP1124 with LQ emulation - it needs different commands and probably some
more RAM for the print buffer.

 > > 
Alejandro. >
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