"...benefit from a larger amount of cache space..."
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Since my Windows 3.1 experience may not translate
into anything usable in later Windows, i make this short.
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After increasing my 486 memory from 4 MegBytes to 32
i was still unable to get my Opera 3.62 browser to use
a larger sized cache. I say this since each time i would
click onto any url, my hard drive light would flicker telling
me that a part of Opera needed to accomplish my request
was not in memory, and thus loaded from my hard drive.
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This is different from using data obtained from the internet,
and stored in your cache, and re-used when you visit the
same url and be notified that the data has not changed.
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Opera is small comparied to IE and Netscape, and i never could
figure out how to tell it to load itself completely in memory.
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Most likely Windows 3.1 took control of its loading,
and most likely someplace is an easy way to manage it better.
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I do know many memory management programs are available,
but they are really needed (i think) in the long past years where
many programs needed to be run in lower memory, or using
that extended & expanded memory methods. But today i'am
guessing no one here needs these types of programs.
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So what i did was create a RAM Disk inside CONFIG.SYS
and inside AUTOEXEC.BAT do a COPY of the directory where
i use to run Opera from, and copy it into the RAM(memory) directory,
and have Opera from Windows RUN from there.
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Thus, the Opera could Page/Swap itself out from "disk" to memory
all it wanted since it was really memory-to-memory and didn't
access my hard drive after the copy into the memory RAM directory.
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I'am sure once i get a pc with 256 or 512 of memory that i'll find
a program writting to a file on my hard disk over and over causing
my hard drive to work "too much" so i'll create directories in memory
and give that as pathnames for it to work with.
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WARNING: Unlike files on hard drive, those in memory are lost
if your pc loses power, or you do a RESET type re-boot.
I'am thinking the CTRL-ALT-Delete is o.k. since it does not
re-something memory, unless it does the same CONFIG.SYS.
doug |
