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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 13:25:25 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au>
cc: DJGPP <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Where is my physical memory hiding?
In-Reply-To: <199709190643.QAA17217@rabble.uow.edu.au>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970921132453.9556O-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Brett Porter wrote:

> I have a function that reports free physical RAM (cut and pasted from info
> using RHIDE... it is in the go32_mem_info block section). This reports to me
> that I have over 7000000 bytes free (it changes each time I run it,
> depending on various things).
> 
> But when I try to allocate 62 blocks (each 64000 bytes), I run out of memory.
> Shouldn't there be enough, and if not, shouldn't it start paging to disk? I
> have 19Mb free on my Hd...

Did you try to enlarge the CWSDPMI's internal tables, as the FAQ
suggests in section 15.4?

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