Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 08:20:01 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Y. Lazarovitch" <yitzg AT haven DOT ios DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: problem with V2 ld.exe on 386...


On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Y. Lazarovitch wrote:

> I am using realese 2.00, not the betas, have no other memory manager 
> loaded, and have no idea what I should adjust thru csparm :) . I do have 
> about 609kb free conventional memory so maybe DPMI could use that? Anyway, 
> I really hope I can get this running.

Download the file csdpmi1p.zip from the same place you get DJGPP, in the
v2misc subdirectory and unzip it.  There you will find a program called
CWSPARAM and its docs.  This program is your tool to tune CWSDPMI to your
system setup (on memory-starved machines like yours, this tuning is a
must).  One of the parameters you can set is called ``Minimum application
memory desired before 640K paging'' and is by default set to 256Kb.  
CWSDPMI won't use memory below 640K unless it has less than that value 
above 640K.  I suggest you set that value to 512K and see what go32-v2 
reports then.  If the amount of DPMI memory it reports goes up, try 
compiling and see if it is faster.  If it is, you can further fine-tune 
the above parameter to see what is the best value for you.

Please keep me posted on the results of your testing, as this will go to 
the FAQ and I'd want to be sure my recommendations really work (I don't 
have access to any system which is this low on memory).