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Any recomendations for a free DOS memory cleaner/optimizer that runs every so often, to maybe help with lag from MMUD.

I don't remember anything about dos having a memory cleaner...

What I would do is set it up to reboot every few days (or once a week) at the end of the cleanup...

Especially if it's dos based...

--James

Drex wrote:Any recomendations for a free DOS memory cleaner/optimizer that runs every so often, to maybe help with lag from MMUD.

If your running DOS 5 or 6 Qemm is about the most effective at getting that extra few k free below 640.
Try reducing the number or monsters, rooms and items buffered in Majormud. Also tweak the buffer settings this will take alot of patience and restarts, be sure wait until you mud is fully loaded (it can take 3 or more hours on a slow machine) You'll see "MajorMud Initialized Maps Updated" in the audit trail.

DOS 6 and up also have memaker which is pretty good, but they're all going to load DOS=HIGH or DOS=UMB, and majormud's release notes say strictly not to use either of those for some reason.

Malakai wrote:DOS 6 and up also have memaker which is pretty good, but they're all going to load DOS=HIGH or DOS=UMB, and majormud's release notes say strictly not to use either of those for some reason.

I dug back the some backup's and found an old config.sys file I used with Dos 6. This may help you,

Config.sys:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\himem.sys
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM HIGHSCAN I=B000-B7FF
BUFFERS=90,0
FILES=150
DOS=UMB
LASTDRIVE=K
FCBS=4,0
DEVICEHIGH /L:2,31840 =C:\DIGI\XIDOS5.SYS
DOS=HIGH
DEVICEHIGH /L:4,28592 =C:\NEC_DRV\NEC_IDE.SYS /D:NEC_1X1

Autoexec.bat:

echo off
LH /L:2,24448 c:\cdrom\mscdex.exe /d:nec_1x1 /l:e /e /s /m:32
PATH=C:\DOS;c:\pkzip;c:\mbs;c:\nec_drv;
SET QBACKUP=C:\QBACKUP
PATH=C:\QBACKUP;%PATH%
PROMT=$p$g
c:
cd \mbs

This ran WG 2 dos with a 16 port digiboard and if I rember correct had about 570-580k free below 640k. MajorMud, and Tw2002 ran no problem on the old pentium 100.