Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 08:57:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "jonathan.hanks" <run AT calstatela DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: dpmi questions
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On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, jonathan.hanks wrote:

> I am writing an application that needs to spawn another program.  This works 
> great, but it gives it only conventional memory.  
> 
> Can I get it to page itself out of memory before calling the other program ???

Why would you need this?  The DPMI server should swap the parent when and
if the child wants more memory than is physically free, so you needn't
worry.  Paging out makes spawning MUCH slower (this is what DJGPP v1.x
used to do).