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- firefox but slow... (faster browser needed - May be "Pale Moon" base on firefox could be an alternative)
- injoy firewall (for safety) but slowdown my internet link
- openoffice
- pm123
- kmp or VLC
- PMVIEW
- ClamAVGUI with ClamAV :D
- AVxCAT with ffmpeg :D

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Storage / Re: PMSHELL
« on: July 30, 2018, 04:19:43 pm »
I wouldn't call it a "storage" issue. It is a shortage of lower shared memory space. I find that it is only a matter of a few minutes, until my system crashes, when lower shared memory drops below 100 MB (it is probably already dead if it shows 10 MB). To avoid the problem, I add the line"
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VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=2560to CONFIG.SYS. Some systems will be able to use 3072, but, apparently, some other systems can't use that. It only increases the available upper shared memory anyway.

Doing that does not actually change the problem, without taking further steps to mark some things to actually use upper shared memory space (there are some fixes in the ArcaOS kernel for upper shared memory support too). The easiest thing to set to use upper shared memory space, is Apache Open Office. In the Extras folder, there is a tool to set it to use upper shared memory (some experimenting may be required). If you do that, you may find that there will be a LIBC problem (usually not obvious), if you close Open Office more than once. To avoid that, use the Quickstart thing, to prevent it from actually closing.

You should also realize, that shared memory may fragment. If the largest fragment is 5 MB, and some program needs 5.5 MB, you are dead in the water. If the program is properly written, to check if it actually got the requested memory, it will probably just crash the program. If it doesn't check (apparently, most programs don't), and tries to use it anyway, it usually causes what you describe.

If I did not understand you correctly Doug. You typed:
"without taking further steps to mark some things to actually use upper shared memory space".
However GCC applications already store data (such as browser cache) into the high area.

For Remy:

The real killer is the size of the large DLL's that get loaded this can fixed by using a tool to mark the code segments to load high. Do this for Firefox DLL's, THunderbird AND Open Office.  Do not mark the datasegments high of the DLL.
Also make a backup of your DLL's before doing this.  There is a tool from Yuri called high512 that can mark the DLL's high.

You are most likely not the first and the last OS/2 user to expereince these type of lockups. It might be usefull to report this in a ticket to AN ?

Roderick

Arent't there set to load high by default?
How to know all dll's which aren't set to be loaded into high storage area?
Thanks

For now, I'm unable to boot ArcaOS after having got a TRAP0003 and lost of many JFS link entries... (made unrecoverable by JFS)
Trying to recover my system

I think it is no more possible to recover...
264 file(s) where scratched during the trap and a lot of uncoverable files... (including, exe, dll and drivers)  :( :o

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Storage / Re: PMSHELL
« on: July 30, 2018, 04:16:54 pm »
I wouldn't call it a "storage" issue. It is a shortage of lower shared memory space. I find that it is only a matter of a few minutes, until my system crashes, when lower shared memory drops below 100 MB (it is probably already dead if it shows 10 MB). To avoid the problem, I add the line"
Code: [Select]
VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=2560to CONFIG.SYS. Some systems will be able to use 3072, but, apparently, some other systems can't use that. It only increases the available upper shared memory anyway.

Doing that does not actually change the problem, without taking further steps to mark some things to actually use upper shared memory space (there are some fixes in the ArcaOS kernel for upper shared memory support too). The easiest thing to set to use upper shared memory space, is Apache Open Office. In the Extras folder, there is a tool to set it to use upper shared memory (some experimenting may be required). If you do that, you may find that there will be a LIBC problem (usually not obvious), if you close Open Office more than once. To avoid that, use the Quickstart thing, to prevent it from actually closing.

You should also realize, that shared memory may fragment. If the largest fragment is 5 MB, and some program needs 5.5 MB, you are dead in the water. If the program is properly written, to check if it actually got the requested memory, it will probably just crash the program. If it doesn't check (apparently, most programs don't), and tries to use it anyway, it usually causes what you describe.

It is already set to VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=2560 but this is usefull for high memory.

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Storage / PMSHELL
« on: July 29, 2018, 08:50:51 pm »
Did some of you get storage issue ?
I saw that as soon my shared memory gors below 10Mb, I have display freeze and fullscreen mode fails.
I check free memory using SL.

I tried to kill PMSHELL used by WPS which results into a WPS restart and 70MB freed memory into share storage.
How to configure to have shared memory freed as soon it is no more used ?
Thanks     

530
Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: July 23, 2018, 01:32:38 am »
FYI

Firefox 45.9 is longer to start than FF 38.8 but I tried do speed it up using RAM drive - xul.dll is very big ! (29 398 067 bytes)
I do a xcopy of my @uniroot\usr\lib\firefox-45.9.0 to @ramroot\lib\firefox-45.9.0 after having added a new program icon named firefox with program path: M:\lib\firefox-45.9.0 \firefox.exe under  @uniroot\usr\lib\firefox-45.9.0

this is done by the startup.cmd
...
md M:\lib\firefox-45.9.0
xcopy of my C:\usr\lib\firefox-45.9.0 M:\lib\firefox-45.9.0  /S /E
exit

Than, I run firefox from my RAM drive (created under ArcaOS and using my extra 12MB storage)
I found it to be faster to start now. Other dll's have been left on @unixroot 

531
I did the test, setting ijfw to priority 100 didn't provide my any speed gain : same as priority 40

532
Hi,

I have been following the thread. I am using the MMRE driver for my RTL 8110 xE fast express Ethernet (device:8136h). I have for a few years ago also slow upload/download. I have at that time just bought Injoy Firewall and running Ecomstation 2.1 and could not figure out why my net performance was poor compared to Windows and Linux on same PC. I reported it to Bitwise and it turns out that Firewall was the issue. I needed to adjust the  firewall priority to 100. Since then I have the same performance on all OS Windows/Linux and ArcaOS.

I am using latest MMRE driver.

Thanks for your advice, I never tried to put priority to 100 due it is writtent it could have bad effect...
I'll give it a try.

533
Hi,

I did more test during my last updates and found an interresting thing...
When putting the MMRE driver before the FXWRAP (injoy firewall) driver, the speed increases a lot.
For those using IJFW, I suggest them having the FXWRAP device after the network device like :
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\MACS\MMRE.OS2
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\FXWRAP.SYS

After doing this, the speed is mutch better (34Mbps) and stopping the IJFW server, the speed goes up to 56Mbps now...   

534
General Discussion / Re: Display issue !
« on: July 19, 2018, 05:05:01 pm »
Hi Ivan,

I do not use SNAP which does not support 16/10 "wide screen" natively for my i7 5775 with integrated graphic processor.
Switching from one driver to an other is not end user friendly (no GUI et... like for other options for which end-user easy to use options are missing)

Regards
Remy
 

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General Discussion / Re: Display issue !
« on: July 19, 2018, 02:43:01 pm »
I use CPU mask to only use real 4 CPUs.
I increased virtualaddresslimit to 2048 and 3072 but it didn't resolve the problem.
Sometimes, it looks like it is linked with the WPS !  ( ex: adding a desktop object, moving its place and locking it -> CAD and freeze ! ) without loading any applications...   

536
General Discussion / Display issue !
« on: July 19, 2018, 04:08:28 am »
I use panorama.
since my os upgrade, I have more often the screen from below picture and system hung when I do a CAD to go into the CAD menu
In the last 24h, i've got it 5 times...
To recover, I have to power off/on + chkdsk disk   

Any idea about what could be the culprit ?   

537
I just installed firefox 45.9 and the speed botleneck from ff38 seems to be resolved.
Under ff45.9, the speed test result is very simlar to speetest cli os/2 prompt cmd.

538
I changed the driver for "Realtek 8169/1Gb PCIe MAC Driver"
Now, I have 25Mbps which nearly 2 times faster than the MMRE driver but always slower than under windows or using the network driver for under virtualbox.

Updt: above tests where done from under firefox.
(With the MMRE driver, I didn't see any noticeable speed difference from firefox test or under an os/2 window)

I just  tested the ""Realtek 8169/1Gb PCIe MAC Driver"" from under an OS/2 window and this driver is definitively the good one to use because I could get a 56Mbps download speed and 5Mbps upload which is now a good value due having just do a test under windows and currently, my download speed is nearly 58Mbps (one of the lowest speed I had using the same hosted speedtest server)

===================================================
[C:\speedtest]python speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Bouygues Telecom .......
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by ONLINE S.A.S. (xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [20.07 km]: 16.333 ms
Testing download speed.......................
Download: 56.11 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed............................
Upload: 5.10 Mbit/s
===================================================


From under firefox (the one under ArcaOS 38, the speed didn't go above 25Mbps !
Firefox looks to be a bottleneck now...

(I tested again the speed using the MMRE driver and get 9.8Mbps !)

Thanks having suggested me to use the other available driver I didn't try.   

539
Installed driver:
MMRE RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter

540
You can give a try to this "speedtest' too
https://openspeedtest.com/Get-widget.php

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