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	(message from Ji Meng Loh on Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:17:33 -0600 (CST))
Subject: Re: DPMI swap
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> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:17:33 -0600 (CST)
> From: Ji Meng Loh <loh AT galton DOT uchicago DOT edu>
> 
> My machine runs Win ME with 256MB ram, and I run my programs through
> a dos window. With go32-v2, I find that I have DPMI memory of 205MB and
> DPMI swap of 50MB. My disk swap space is actually a lot larger (~1GB).
> 
> I sometimes use a Win XP machine, and there, from a C: prompt box, the
> DPMI swap is 0.
> 
> How do I make the DPMI swap bigger?

You don't need to worry about the swap at all.  Many DPMI servers lie
about the available swap size.  All the members of the NT family
(which includes W2K and XP) are known to do that.  In practice, the
NT-derived versions of Windows magically expand the "DPMI memory" part
as needed, up to the maximum amount they allow DPMI programs to use.

As for ME, the sum of the DPMI memory and the swap is ~256MB, which is
the maximum amount of memory you can use on Windows 9X series.  They
don't let you use more than the amount of available physical memory.
If you want more than that, you will have to go to plain DOS and use
CWSDPMI.