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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:7 Jul 2001 at 17:02:30
Subject:Re: AWeb stuck conns

Peter Gordon said,

>> JPEGTMP: is used for decoding JPEGs when RAM runs low, so assigning it
>> to RAM is not the best idea...

> Depends how much RAM you have. When loading progressive jpegs in AWeb, my it
> used to almost grind to a halt amoungst a lot of hard disk thrashing (quite
> reminiscent of Windows). As I have 88Mb of fast ram, I assigned JPEGTMP: to
> RAM: and now progressive jpegs load much quicker, and I don't run out of RAM
> or crash or anything.

You're still slowing it down, because paging to RAM: is slower than
using RAM. Alter the settings to suit your system instead of kludging
the assign which may cause problems when running with less available
memory.

Cheers

Neil



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