Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:2626 From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: available DPMI swapspace in djgpp v1 and v2 Date: 10 Apr 1996 23:03:59 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Lines: 64 Message-ID: <4kheov$1e4p@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: fb0408.mathematik.th-darmstadt.de To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Hello all, I posted a question about available DPMI memory under Win95 a while back and someone (Eli?) asked me to quote the exact results from go32/go32-v2, which I will do now. After reading other posts in the group, I also tried setting the DPMI memory from automatic to 64M, but this doesn't seem to affect the values. The following is in a Win95 DOS box go32 version 1.12.maint3 Copyright (C) 1994 DJ Delorie Lowest version I can run is 1.08 go32.exe usage: go32 [-d {debugger}] [{program} [{options} . . . ]] go32.exe build time was Sun Dec 18 16:36:42 1994 DPMI memory available: 4948 Kb Swap space available: 10968 Kb (I think this corresponds with the default maximum size of the space space, which is 10MB on my machine) With go32-v2, only a small amount of swap space is reported: go32/v2 version 2.0 built Jan 23 1996 22:03:02 Usage: go32 coff-image [args] Rename this to go32.exe only if you need a go32 that can run v2 binaries as well as v1 binaries (old makefiles). Put ahead of the old go32 in your PATH. DPMI memory available: 4948 Kb DPMI swap space available: 1884 Kb When using cwsdpmi and the dos mode without windows, the results are as expected: go32 version 1.12.maint3 Copyright (C) 1994 DJ Delorie Lowest version I can run is 1.08 go32.exe usage: go32 [-d {debugger}] [{program} [{options} . . . ]] go32.exe build time was Sun Dec 18 16:36:42 1994 DPMI memory available: 6636 Kb Swap space available: 3748 Kb go32/v2 version 2.0 built Jan 23 1996 22:03:02 Usage: go32 coff-image [args] Rename this to go32.exe only if you need a go32 that can run v2 binaries as well as v1 binaries (old makefiles). Put ahead of the old go32 in your PATH. DPMI memory available: 6628 Kb DPMI swap space available: 3748 Kb (This is correct, there was only about 3.5MB of free space on drive c) So either the detection of free space is broken in go32-v2 or there is less space available to djgpp2 programs than there is to djgpp v1 programs (I haven't tried actually allocation large chunks of space, this idea just occured to me and I don't have access to a Win95 box here). bye, Alexander -- Alexander Lehmann, | "On the Internet, alex AT hal DOT rhein-main DOT de (plain, MIME, NeXT) | nobody knows lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (plain) | you're a dog."