From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9710151532.AA12619@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: cwsdpmi r4 beta
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:32:10 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971015124953.17868A-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Oct 15, 97 12:51:36 pm
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> > Should the default "extra paragraphs" be increased somewhat?
> 
> I wouldn't.  A vast majority of cases work with the default 128
> paragraphs.  And the pathological cases I've seen need much more than
> the default.  

I may look at DJGPP's sbrk/malloc stuff then.  There is nothing magical about
the 64K chunk size - maybe it needs to be dynamic also to keep a handle
on the total number of memory zones, which we have a static number in
crt0 anyway, and bad things may happen if we exceed that.