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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Virtual Memory question
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 16:24:36 CDT
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> a question about GO32's virtual memory handling.  It seems that it swaps
> to disk even if I'm not using much ram.  Grr.  Is it possible to disable

GO32 will only swap to disk if you have used all of the memory, or if
you spawn a program (or use system).  Issue the GO32 command without
any arguments and you will probably find your memory is mis-configured.
To disable swapping, set the environment variable GO32TMP to point to
a non-existent drive/directory, something like z:\
But if you disable swapping and are out of memory, your programs don't
run at all, so this is usually a bad idea except during testing.