To: Gary Sitton <sitton AT wg DOT waii DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: DJGPP Bugs 
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 95 08:15:28 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> I had some problems with the 2.6.0 and the 2.6.3 versions, I ran out
> of virtual memory wth a DPMI error.  This is completely bogus as I
> have a 8 Mb machine with plenty of /tmp spave as well.  I am using

Did you try to establish how much memory does your DPMI host
give to the program until it fails?  You could write a program
which just allocates memory until it fails and prints the
allocated size.  (Be sure to call calloc(), not malloc(), as
go32 sometimes only gets memory from the system when you
actually access it.)  After you have that info, you could check
with the parameters you give to 386max to see what maximum
amount of virtual memory did you specify there (you *did*
specify virtual memory, did you?).

> 386max.sys version 7.0 for a DPMI host (v. 1.0).  When I used the
> NODPMI option using 386max, everything works fine.  Also I am using

You might also put ``nodpmi'' into your GO32 environment variable,
so DPMI services will be still available to other programs while
go32 won't use them.  Btw, DJGPP programs run faster when go32
doesn't use DPMI, so you might do it anyway.