Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:16:52 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Victor <fesenko AT pacific DOT net DOT sg>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Remaining memory under OS/2 question
In-Reply-To:	<35eae674.2404551@news>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980831121628.22974W-100000@is>
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Victor wrote:

> As for other functions the trouble is that I'm not sure what the
> values in the structures returned by these functions should be.
> I tried the function __dpmi_get_free_memory_information() and the
> value of largest_available_free_block_in_bytes changes in the course
> of the program, but I'm not sure how to interpret it.

It's the largest block you can allocate in one chunk.  If it changes,
then it means that the OS/2 DPMI server *does* track and report the
available memory correctly, it just doesn't tell you anything useful
about *physical* memory.  This is expected from a multi-processing OS,
since ideally there should be *no* free physical memory there
(otherwise, it means that the system uses less RAM than it could).

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