OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
How to have quantity and quality of memory
Dave Yeo:
Hi Pete, you should try increasing your VIRTUALADDDRESSLIMIT.
ivan:
Hi Pete,
I would suggest running Memtest from a bootable CD to check that your memory sticks are OK.
From my experience with various motherboards, changing the MB and using the same hard disk doesn't cause problems - the very odd time there was a problem Memtest found a memory module with dud sectors, changed the memory stick and all was well again.
Pete:
Hi All
Removing 2 sticks of RAM leaving 2 x 2Gb sticks in place made no difference. Strange that a motherboard swap should introduce problems especially as they are very similar specification motherboards.
Reinstalled the 2 sticks of RAM and continued experimenting with SWAPPATH and VIRTUALADDDRESSLIMITvalues.
I seem to have found the settings that work for this system:-
SWAPPATH=L:\OS2\SYSTEM 2048 204800
VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=1536
Both the above settings are lower than used previously and, so far, everything seems to work - have opened and closed both Seamonkey and Openoffice3 times prior to posting this whereas previous settings would not let Openoffice run at all. I have also used Dosbox twice to run some dos games and Free Sudoku (java game) in between checking if Seamonkey or Openoffice fail to run.
No doubt immediately I post this message the whole lot will "crash and burn" ;-)
Regards
Pete
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