Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/16/07:17:11
Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) (salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar) wrote:
: 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
Maybe I missunderstand you, but you can swap to a ramdisk. Not that it would
do much good if it's program size that is the problem.
: 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 ;-)
Hmm, can't CWSDPMI use extended memory directly? Thus no EMM386, hence
perhaps no 32MB limit?
Silence,
MartinS
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