Re: Power Objects and WIN-OS2

In message <sista.49.00171B98_at_interaccess.com> - sista_at_interaccess.com (Kasu Sista) writes:
:>
:>>Hi All,
 

:>>Not professing to be an OS2 expert I have a question regarding Power
:>>Objects and WIN-OS2.
 

:>>I witnessed a strange event the other day, a pentium 90 with 32 megs
:>>of RAM running a compiled Power Objects exe of the MLDONE application.
:>>My compaq AERO 4/33C ran faster (486SX 33MH system) with 12 MB of RAM.
 

:>>Question how does OS2 implement a WIN-OS2 session?
 

:>>What would have made the application run like a dog?
:>
:>I am not an OS-2 expert either. But it is possible that OS-2 allocated a lot
:>less memory to windows than 12MB, since it runs windows as a task. I think
:>there is also a difference in how windows is run between OS-2/2.1 and Warp.
:>May be there is a way to allocate more memory to windows.

Yes there is. Increase the DPMI memory setting in the DOS_SETTINGS for the object. There may be other tuning you can do. best ask in an OS/2 newsgroup.

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| Simon Thompson