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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:48:56 +0000
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Subject: Re: EMM386 limiting memory to 32Mb
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ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg) wrote:

> Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) (salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar) wrote:
> :   What's the best way to use more than 32Mb of memory under DOS 6.X?
> 
> How about making a BIG ramdisk and copy djgpp/{bin,include,lib} to it
> and setting the PATH accordingly?

Currently I have 4Mb ramdisk for compiler temporals and 8Mb of cache. 
But it won't help when ld or cc1plus will try to use more than 28Mb 
of memory because I'll get a swap (swap files can be only in real 
disks). In fact I was forced to enlarge the cc1plus and ld stacks to 
2Mb (if I remmember well) so they have 26Mb discounting 1Mb of code 
lets around 25Mb .... not enough because it will swap a lot. Using 
this EMM386 I get 52Mb of XMS letting 45Mb for the data ... I hope it 
will avoid most of the swap ;-)

Greetings, SET 
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