From: kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 15:15:22 -0500
Message-Id: <9702062015.AA26861@quasar.bloomberg.com >
To: nikki AT gameboutique DOT co
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <5dcqat$3j4@flex.uunet.pipex.com> (nikki@gameboutique.co)
Subject: Re: big fat swap
Reply-To: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com

   From: nikki AT gameboutique DOT co (nikki)
   Date: 6 Feb 1997 14:37:17 GMT

   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 :)

Does your memory manager (EMM386, etc) have a large permanent EMS allocation?

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Art S. Kagel, kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com

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