Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/13/13:04:41
Daniel Taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr> wrote:
> As you may have notices, I have memory problems with DJGPP (in fact perl5004_02=perl.exe). Under
> Win95, it crashes with "Out of memory", which means that the malloc() failed (This happens with
> scripts handling large strings or hundreds of kilobytes).
>
> Two points:
> 1. The given perl.exe has NOT the debug option, so that the -Dm execution parameter is rejected,
> 2. I have 32Mbyte memory and, with the same memory, the perl script runs in the Win3.11 DOS window.
>
> Questions:
> a- Does DJGPP (V2) use virtual memory? (not disabled in my Win95)
Yes, but remmember to set the DPMI memory to 65535 in the preferences of your
MS-DOS direct access icon.
> b- Should I change the parameter/system/memory options which by default are all AUTO (EMS, XMS,
> DPMI). Itried to force XMS and (another time) DPMI to fixed high options, but the memory crash still
> occurs.
Change it to 64Mb of DPMI.
> c- BTW, is there a perl command to check either the amount of memory used or free
> at any moment?
No idea.
Additionally you can recompile the sources with the last djgpp alpha, it have a
new malloc that wastes less memory. Of course you must understand that IS
alpha.
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