Hi Paul,

On 25 Jul 17 17:18, Paul Quinn wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen:
  about: "Re: Status check":

 PQ>>> On the other end of the scale, I have a test bed
 PQ>>> Puppy (linux v2.6.x.x) VirtualBox waiting while I'm
 PQ>>> working slowly through an FM config in an old XP VirtualBox.  :)

 WvV>> Do those two virtual box's use common drive space? (Then
 WvV>> you're ready ;))

 PQ> Nope.  Na'er the twain meets, except via IP.  OTOH, one VM has a drive
 PQ> letter, a colon, and path(s) with slants thusly "\",
while the other has
 PQ> the same path(s) with "/" slants.  A simple command-line
argument will fix
 PQ> that, you say...  ;-)

I said that wrong. It's an environment variable you have to set. ;)
If that is set the drive letter plus colon is replaced with the contents of
the environment variable and "\"'s are converted to
"/"'s in the configuration paths.

However FConfigW32 checks and creates paths when you configure them, so it
would be much easier if it does that on the "shared" drive were
the real files exist. So you don't have to create them by hand on the linux
drive, and copy over the configuration files, with the chance you make
mistakes, every time you change something in the config.

 PQ> While I have your attention: how much RAM would be recommended for
 PQ> Fmail/linux?  (The intended working Puppy vBox has been humming for six
 PQ> years with 256Mb, running binkD, CM II, GoldEd and JamNNTPd, and, rarely
 PQ> ever uses half of it.)  Too early to say yet?  Then say so.  :)

FMail uses the most memory when it calls the JAMmaint function. It does
that when messages are tossed into a Jam area, and you have 'Update reply
chains' configured to 'Yes', or when the 'FTools Maint' command is used. It
will at least use twice as much memory as the combined size of the 4 files
that make up a Jam area. So memory usage will depend on your largest Jam
area.

Everything else is in the kilobyte range or maybe lower megabyte range, so
more or less neglectable, I suspect, because I've never measured this. ;)

Wilfred.

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