Subj : Re: cpu usage
To   : T.j. Mcmillen
From : Andy Alt
Date : Wed Sep 08 2004 03:49 am

-=> T.J. MCMILLEN wrote to ANDY ALT <=-

 AA> I haven't confirmed first-hand that this will work, but the sysop ordered
 AA> more RAM for his BBS computer, so we shall see. :)

 TM> 512 megs of ram here and I killed EVERYTHING else, including the other
 TM> nodes, still the same lag.  It's a low mem, not an EMS or XMS mem
 TM> problem with BRE that it's eating it all and bringing winBLOWS to a
 TM> crawl. :(

Did you get happen upon my ALL message about how I took care of this? Here 
it is just in case you missed it.
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 System: Amateur BBS
   Area: FN_Solar Realms Games
   Date: 09-05-04 04:54
   From: ANDY ALT
     To: All
   Subj: Bre cpu issue followup
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I believe I have solved the cpu issue regarding the BRE games for the
system I work on.

First, I noticed in the autoexec.nt file that the command lh dosx was in
there. But running lh by itself only reported a bad command or file name
-- or the 2k equivalent :)

I made some minor changes to the config.nt file

dos=high,umb
device=himem.sys
shell=command.com /p /e:4096
files=75

Note that I'm not specifying any paths here, just throwing out the gist of
it. Let me know if details are needed.

Now for the kicker, what *really* made the difference and possibly the
only thing that was required.
The file _default.pif, I went to the "misc" section, and right there is a
setting to allocate cpu resources. I set the slider bar almost all the way
to the right.

Anyway, hope this helps; it's quite a relief for me.

I found some of this information at
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBA/tip0100/rh0151.htm
 
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