From: RGRUNWAL AT wasp DOT cs DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au
Organization: Edith Cowan University
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 18:30:24 GMT+800
Subject: Re: XMS-Memory Probs - go32 eats 26MB

Sven wrote the following:

>We have a P60 with 32MB RAM, go32m3. If we configure XMS to be 26MB, i.e.
>loading himem but NOT emm386, go32 reports these 26MB as available when
>invoked. But if we execute a binary built with gcc263, it reports "Not enough
>memory to run go32" and pretends to have only 420KB XMS left.

An immediate thought: Are you running this application from a DOS/box under
Windows? Windows is an extremely greedy OS, grabbing as much memory for itself
as it can, and leaving only very little for DOS applications.

Also perhaps you could include a copy of your CONFIG.SYS file and also tell
us what MEM.EXE reports. I'd be really interested to see what the problem
could be.


Regards, Ron.



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