Re: CPU hogging Xywin under OS/2

[Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

Allan Needell (Please note the new User ID !!) wrote:
>
> I see by rereading Tyson's OS/2 consultant Ver.3 2nd ed. sec. 14.9 that
   Haven't looked at Tyson for awhile -- is he talking about Warp, or
just 2.1?

> I mispoke (I'm allowed, being the neophyte). OS/2 will always mananage
> memory when you run windows and non-windows apps from a win os2 session.

  I didn't catch that before, but re-reading your previous post I see
the same thing -- are you saying that you are running non-windoz apps
from a winos2 session? Like running dos apps in winos2? Why would you
want to do that?

> So there is no difference on that regard between enhanced and standard
> modes. The point is that unless the windows programs NEED winmem32.dll
> (and very few do) win/os2 will manage memory for WINDOWS apps better standard mode than in enhanced. So the result is the same, Harmon's

  I guess I should take a more careful look and actually do some time
trials on that. They're just so slow and clutzy compared to native OS/2
apps (not to mention bloated, which is one reason they're slower) that
my attitude is to just throw lots of resources at them, hoping they'll
improve at least a tiny bit. And since I'm not using them on a regular
basis, I don't really care if Corel eats up 20megs of RAM, for instance,
because I'm probably only using just it anyway during that period, and
then closing it.
  Now that you've made the transition, Allan, you'll have to start
frequenting the OS/2 repository at hobbes and trying out some of the
fine OS/2 shareware. Some rather amazing stuff there -- especially
amazing when you see what it does, and how small it often is. You'll be
able to replace a lot of those old windoz apps with nicer tools. You'll
probably want to try Describe also.
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