Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:5972
From: Tom Wheeley <tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: go-32 and Linux DOSEMU
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 96 11:58:00 GMT
Organization: City Zen FM
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Message-ID: <837345480snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
References: <199607121004 DOT GAA07038 AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us>
Reply-To: tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In article <199607121004 DOT GAA07038 AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us>
           fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us  writes:

> Thinking furiously, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > I just got the patch to dpmi.c for dosemu installed and rebuilt dosemu.
> > > Now I can run GCC, et al, and it's great.
> > > 
> > > one little problem:
> > > when  run go32-v2, it reports:
> > > 
> > >     DPMI memory available: 7744 Kb
> > >     DPMI swap space available: 0 Kb
> > 
> > Edit /etc/dosemu.conf and look for a line that starts with "dpmi" and
> > increase the setting.  I changed mine from the default of 8192 to
> > 32768 and sure enough, I got 32M of dpmi memory.
>  
> Sorry, maybe I didn't explain well enough: The problem I'm trying to
> get at here isn't the amount of DPMI memory available (at the time I
> ran that go32-v2 I had dosemu.conf set for 8mb of dpmi memory, so 7744
> seems eminently reasonable to me), but the complete absence of DPMI
> swap space.
> 
> This machine has 16mb of physical ram, and when running on bare dos (i.e.,
> not dosemu) I DO get a reasonable value of the swap space.

Call me stupid if I'm wrong, but under Linux, dosemu is your DPMI server;
thus you are using Linux's swap space.  You're not using CWSDPMI, anyway,
like you are under plain DOS.

..splitbung
-- 
#include <stdio.h>                  /* The .splitbung super .sig system! */
#include <string.h>
main(){FILE *f;int c;char s[99];puts("fav .sig: ");fgets(s,99,stdin);strtok
(s,"\n");f=fopen(s,"rb");while((c=getc(f))!=EOF)putchar(c);if(f)fclose(f);}