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#Page Swapping

    22-Feb-92 23:02:57
Sb: #Page Swapping
Fm: TOM TORRE 76150,2657
To: All
Can anyone out there help me with the optimum Setup Configuration for my PC that is running ACAD 11c2…I have an Everex 486/33, 16 meg Ram, 1.2 Gig HD and running under MSDOS 5.0. My main problem is Excessive Page Swapping….I'm lost when it comes to fine tuning AutoCad for Performance. I have a 1.3 meg Schematic drawing and when I perform a status command at the beginning of the session I get: Virtual memory allocated to Program 9248K Amt of program memory/Total virtual program size: 99% Total Conventional memory: 428K Total Extended Memory: 15360K Swap file size: 25788K bytes Page faults: 0 Swap Writes: 0 Swap reclaims: 0 Now this drawing file is very Text intensive, it contains all ROMANT fonts within each BLock (that contains at least 29 attributes). I need the ROMANT fonts for clarity as this drawing is used for publication. I tried changing to a standard font but upper management really doesn't care for them, as far as readability goes. Does anyone know of a third party font developer that has fonts that compare to ROMANT but with less of a byte count per character, that would help a great deal. Sorry to get off track, but after about a half hour of editing this drawing, I do another STATUS command and get: 22420K, 65%, 432K, 15360K, 97656K, 26935, 11023 and 9791 respectively. All snaps are off, the hard disk has been optimized, and the STATUS info has me baffled. Can someone send a sample Config.sys & Autoexec.bat file that might help me out. My hard drive sounds like it want to take a walk out of my machine…Any help would be most appreciated.. —Tom—