From:	Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: EMM386 limiting memory to 32Mb
Date:	16 Jul 1998 10:54:21 GMT
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Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) (salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar) wrote:
: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg) wrote:

: > Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) (salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar) wrote:
: > :   What's the best way to use more than 32Mb of memory under DOS 6.X?
: > 
: > How about making a BIG ramdisk and copy djgpp/{bin,include,lib} to it
: > and setting the PATH accordingly?

: Currently I have 4Mb ramdisk for compiler temporals and 8Mb of cache. 
: But it won't help when ld or cc1plus will try to use more than 28Mb 
: of memory because I'll get a swap (swap files can be only in real 
: disks). In fact I was forced to enlarge the cc1plus and ld stacks to 

Maybe I missunderstand you, but you can swap to a ramdisk. Not that it would 
do much good if it's program size that is the problem.

: 2Mb (if I remmember well) so they have 26Mb discounting 1Mb of code 
: lets around 25Mb .... not enough because it will swap a lot. Using 
: this EMM386 I get 52Mb of XMS letting 45Mb for the data ... I hope it 
: will avoid most of the swap ;-)

Hmm, can't CWSDPMI use extended memory directly? Thus no EMM386, hence 
perhaps no 32MB limit?


Silence,

							MartinS

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