Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 11:47:33 -0400
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: memory consumption under WIN3.1


> I tested  go32dpmi of 1.10 under WIN3.1 and found that when running
> some of the unix utilities in a DOS box (like ls.exe) go32 takes a big
> gulp a 4MB (!). (I have the little Petzold utility 'freemem' running,
> showing me 14 MB free at the beginning which then falls down to 9.9MB free
> while ls is running and then jumps back to 14 MB.

> Just an observation - any comments?

It's much less in 1.11 due to the layout of the program that the
linker uses.