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Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2003 08:43:17 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: DOS session slows to crawl

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Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:
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> For years my DOS wordprocessing program ran fine

Which wordprocessing program and which version of OS/2, Jeff?

> This behavior continues after a reboot with no other programs running.

What happens if there *are* other programs running? Do the other
programs slow down also, or does your w.p. program continue to run
slowly while the other programs run fine?

> Ideas to check, anyone?

Do you hear anything unusual, such as a lot of disk seek activity?

Is your swap file being used? "DIR x:\OS2\SYSTEM\SWAPPER.DAT" and see
if it's at the default 2MB or it has grown.

DOS programs often did polling loops of the keyboard. What does your
CPU Monitor look like?

Is your drive SCSI or is it IDE?

- Peter

Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:
>
> For years my DOS wordprocessing program ran fine in a DOS window, but
> since yesterday it slows to a crawl. Normally the screen painting of
> the characters would follow my typing rate (quite fast, I am a touch
> typist) but now it falls 30-50 characters behind and then the buffer
> fills and starts to beep at me.
>
> This behavior continues after a reboot with no other programs running.
>
> I have changed no settings and installed nothing, as far as I know.
> Session Priority remains at 29 (of 32).
>
> Ideas to check, anyone?
>
> Jeffrey Race
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