Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/01/17:07:22
Aylott Mark (AylottM AT thmulti DOT com) writes:
> Does anyone have any reasons why no matter what
> I do in the way of machine config I cannot get more
> than 64MBytes allocatable physical memory when
> the machine I am using has 128MBytes physical
> memory ??
>
> The application I have is to generate a digital video
> transport stream, and at the output speed required
> virtual memory access time is too long. I therefore
> disable the swap file and load the transport stream
> data into physical memory.
>
> I have tried a variety of HIMEM.SYS drivers
> and have found that the /EISA argument is
> necessary otherwise the program sees only
> 16MB.
Try ditching any third party memory drivers, and not loading any Windows
you have, and running from solid DOS. CWSDPMI will then be used for memory
management/DPMI, and will see all 128 megs.
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