Date:	Wed, 24 Aug 94 18:17:01 -0400
From:	dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To:	babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Cc:	ele AT clients DOT switch DOT ch, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: DJGPP problems

> Problem summary:
>   A test program malloc's several equal sized hunks of memory.  The free
> memory available drops when the program runs, but by less than the amount of
> memory allocated.  Behavior is somewhat different under xms and dpmi, but
> both seem to fail.
> 
> Comments anyone?

I think that available memory is supposed to depend on the sbrk
setting, not the number of physical pages in use.  It's supposed to
correspond to allocated memory, not used memory.

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