Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/13/11:50:02
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I am using
> > DJGPP, and I have 96M RAM. DJGPP lets me allocate up to about 150Meg.
> > However, my hard drive is 6 gig, and I see no reason I couldn't allocate even
> > more, up to 1 gig or so. How do I do this? I am using new and delete.
> If you run on Windows (as I suspect you are), then the amount of
> virtual memory your programs can use is under Windows control; DJGPP
> cannot do anything about it. Try changing the DPMI memory settings of
> the DOS box (through Propert Sheets, under Memory). Note that for
> large settings you need to actually manually type the value into the
> dialog box, since the values that Windows lets you choose from are
> usually small.
But, that won't let you choose more than 65Megs (even if you type it
manually). So if you have >65Megs of RAM, it is usually better to set it to
'auto', which I've seen use >100Megs of DPMI memory.
-Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318
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