From: fesenko AT po DOT pacific DOT net DOT sg (FVR)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Access to more memory
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:40:39 GMT
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<SANDMANN AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote:


>I have no plans at this point to make further changes to CWSDPMI (there
>are no confirmed bugs that I know of, and the missing feature set is small,
>and there are easy workarounds for those).  And I don't use DOS anymore.

>The code can be re-compiled (with a change in dalloc.h) to support up to 
>2Gb of virtual memory (if you have that much disk).  This will greatly
>increase the resident size of the executing CWSDPMI image (potentially to
>the point where the small model breaks).

>I did do some testing almost 2 years ago with 512Mb of memory configured,
>and it seemed to run OK, but I didn't have that much time to test it 
>rigorously (512Mb on a 16Mb machine is S L O W . . .)

When you write 2Gb of virtual memory, what is the ratio RAM/HD in this
case? And is it easy to change dalloc.h?

Thanks.
Victor Fesenko.
fesenko AT pacific DOT net DOT sg