From: nikki AT gameboutique DOT co (nikki)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: big fat swap
Date: 6 Feb 1997 14:37:17 GMT
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i have two machines (a p90 and a p150) each with 16 meg and i try to run the
same program on each. this program allocates perhaps 1 meg total space.
on the first machine the program runs fine, no trouble, on the other it
swaps like crazy everytime i access parts of this 1 meg memory array. as
there should be almost 15meg free i can't for the life of me see why it's
swopping. mem /d shows that pretty much the same things are in memory, both
report having about 600k free base memory and 15meg xms and no tsrs are
reported as having claimed the memory. how on earth can i prevent this from
happening? it makes the program pretty much useless when it spends 90% of the
time swapping :)

regards,
nik

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Graham Tootell           
nikki AT gameboutique DOT com