I've got a pentium box that has 64mb of ram in it. It's been awhile since I've messed with memory management in DOS, so I was wondering how you all would set things up to get the most usage out of whats in there. Thanks!

Example of CONFIG.SYS: DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS (XMS/HMA memory provider) DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS/RAM (or DEVICE=UMBPCI.SYS) DOS=HIGH,UMB,AUTO FILESHIGH=30 FCBSHIGH=4,0 BUFFERSHIGH=20 LASTDRIVEHIGH=26 STACKSHIGH=9,256

Thanks for the example! Most of it did'nt work until I removed most of the 'HIGH's at the end. Perhpas its because I'm using DOS 6.22? Anywho, Everything seems pretty good now, so thanks.

"Most of it did'nt work until I removed most of the 'HIGH's at the end. Perhpas its because I'm using DOS 6.22?" Right. They("HIGH"s at the end) will only work on newer versions of DOS, like MS-DOS 7.x or FreeDOS Kernel 2032, but not on older versions of DOS like MS-DOS 6.x or FreeDOS Kernel 2029. So if you want to use "HIGH"s at the end of these commands to get even more low memory, then it's a good idea to upgrade your DOS. Here you can get some information: http://newdos.yginfo.net/whatsnew.htm

I wonder, why should you use so many FCBs? They are present only to be compatible with DOS 1.x programs and it's quite hard to even find those. In other words: that's a waste of memory (not a big one, but still a waste). So best set it to minimum (which is 1 in MS-DOS 6.22). Also: the STACKS statment. Set to 0,0 to save memory. You can make it larger if any problems do accour. One more thing: you can use DOSMAX to get loading of STACKS, FCBS, etc, data high in MS-DOS 6.22