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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: grundmann <grundema AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:56:21 +0000
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Subject: Re: Memory Problem
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grundmann <grundema AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de> wrote:

>   And then look at the output which is given in the error_file :
> 
> There is still 62693376 bytes physical memory
> There is still 69185536 bytes virtual memory
> Die Buffer size ist:46123690
> First chunk allocated
> There is still 62689280 bytes physical memory
> There is still 2011136 bytes virtual memory
> 
> This is done under dos with CWSDPMI .
> Does malloc has such an overhead ? There are about 20 Megabytes of Memory
> missing !

DJ answered it.

> The second thing is that i only want physical memory cause i sample from a AD
> Card very quick and it is possible that i
> loose data when i use swapped mem.
> I tried to move the data to disk ( with normal open and write functions ) but
> it didn't work . I got an buffer overflow in the
> sample buffer of the AD Card .
> I move 8 Kilobyte blocks from card to memory and then tried to move them to
> disk but without success .

If you want to avoid the swap use the ring 0 version of CWSDPMI. 
What's the sample speed?

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