Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/12/10:33:34
At 11:14 12/11/96 +0100, Thomas Demmer wrote:
>Hi
>I have a quite obscure problem with DJGPP executables
>and the Netware shell (VLM).
>Most of the time everything works fine, but occasionally
>the connection to my server gets killed. This happens
>usually after (or while) running programs that were
>compiled with djgpp. Reaccessing the server is impossible,
>and I have to reboot.
>The basic setup of my machine is
>
>DOS=HIGH,UMB
>DEVICE=HIGHMEM.SYS
>DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS RAM HIGHSCAN /some hw areas excluded/
>
I understand you trouble occurs at the DOS command line. Correct?
Does the problem appears w/binaries from the DJGPP site?
>Most of the NW requester is loaded to Extended Memory.
>I have the feeling the the problem occurs when I use programs
>that use a whole bunch of memory, but I cannot say for sure.
>Starting pgp works fine 5-8 times, then the server connection
>is gone.
>
>As I cannot think of an error that gcc, pgp, mkisofs, less
>and others have in common, I belive the culprit is either the
>requester or cwsdpmi. I'll check that with a DOS-Box under
>windows.
>Charles (and the rest), can I somehow figure out what
>cwsdpmi thinks which parts of the memory is in use by
>the requester and which ones are free? I guess that
>cwsdpmi overwrites parts of the requesters memory,
>because the launched programs usually finish in the
>expected way (unless they require reading from a network
>drive).
>
>Any ideas appreciated.
>
>--
>Ciao
>Tom
>
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