Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/22/09:02:51
In article <vlnYdGAm+QzzEwqo AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>,
Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> When you say that you are losing
> 640k, remember that this is virtual memory, so if you never touch the
> space the DPMI server won't actually bother to allocate any hardware
> pages for it.
True, but it must still allocate enough _disk space_ for it. The DPMI
host can't know that you'll never touch that memory, and it must be able
to page it in physical RAM if you do.
> The only thing being wasted is a few meg of your 32 bit
> linear address space, but there's plenty of that to go around :-)
Disk space (in the swap file) is also being wasted, and this may be a
problem.
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