Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 08:13:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Justin Ward <justin AT yoss DOT canweb DOT net>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: giving back dpmi memory??
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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Justin Ward wrote:

> All I know is that other programs can't find free XMS/EMS memory. I'm using
> cwsdpmi. When I spawn the dos program "mem", every byte of memory 
> (conventional, upper, and extended) is counted as used. When I try to
> run win (3.11) it swaps CONSTANTLY. When I try to run other programs
> which are 16-bit real mode that don't swap, and do depend on XMS or EMS,
> it complains that there isn't enough free memory and I should uninstall
> some drivers or buy more ram.

Sounds like you have very few physical RAM installed.  What does go32-v2 
print when run without arguments?