Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/07/23/17:25:16
> : 1) To provide more than 128Mb virtual memory you need to use CWSPARAM to
> : increase the max swap file size. This eats up DOS 640K memory - about
> : 32 bytes for each 1 Mb maximum swap usage (for the bitmap). This would
> : be an extra 4K of DOS memory to go from 128Mb virtual to 256Mb virtual.
> 4KB is a small price to pay (IMHO). Why not set the maximum as default?
In r5 the maximum will be 2Gb which would consume an extra 64Kb. Dos memory is
a precious resource which is needed for DMA buffers, nested images, and
pagetables. The number of users which needed more than 128Mb of virtual
memory (in 1995 it would take about 2 minutes just to read that from disk
and another 2 minutes to write it...) is very, very small. I'm open to what
the default should be, but I figured 128Mb virtual was enough. If you need
to run something that big you probably ought to buy more real memory :-)
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