Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/30/20:21:37
Date: | Tue, 30 Apr 1996 20:06:39 -0400 (EDT)
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From: | Justin Ward <justin AT yoss DOT canweb DOT net>
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: | Re: giving back dpmi memory??
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In-Reply-To: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.960430081218.2274E-100000@is>
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Message-ID: | <Pine.BSF.3.91.960430200220.7082A-100000@yoss.canweb.net>
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MIME-Version: | 1.0
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On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Sounds like you have very few physical RAM installed. What does go32-v2
> print when run without arguments?
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13 megs dpmi memory available, 131 megs dpmi swap. The problem seems to come
when a program tries to find out how much free XMS memory is available..
which is (properly) 0, since it's all being used as DPMI memory. Whether
or not a DPMI host (specifically cwsdpmi in this case) will free up DPMI
memory when XMS memory is REQUESTED I don't know. But any program that
needs XMS will try to find out how much there is free first. And when it
gets 0 bytes free, it bitches and complains and then either exits or swaps
to the disk (this is what win 3.11 does).
Justin
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