From: Charles Sandmann Subject: QDPMI VM bug workaround To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP Mailing List) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 21:57:04 -0600 (CST) In the DPMI-only GO32 testbed, I hacked "initsize" into the GO32 env variable and was able to run V1.12's pagetest under QDPMI+VM with many more MB's than my machine really has (BTW, the VM algorithm in QDPMI sucks, it pages any time I use over 50% of the real memory with VM on?!?). This test code doesn't work real well in the real world, since nested programs (make+gcc+cc1) then take 3*initsize memory. So, you end up with a huge swapfile which is rarely (but too frequently) used. But this workaround is probably better than no workaround. It should would be easier if Quarterdeck had just done resize memory block right to begin with (or fix it and offer free patches ...) Anyway.