Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/16/14:08:23
Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) wrote:
> 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.
Swap in a non physical disk? hmmm.... I don't know.
> : 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?
Yes but then I can't run any DOS program because the base memory is
reduced from 600Kb to 450Kb (free memory I mean).
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