To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: LIP AT underdog DOT ee DOT wits DOT ac DOT za
Date:         18 May 93 17:59:06 SAT
Subject:      allocating more than ~20Mb memory

Hi,
I have successfully installed DJGPP GCC 2.3.3 on a Novell Netware 3.11
server.  It works fine except that the pagetest sample program
crashes if I say try: Pagetest 30000
on the
"Init page 6207"
with the screen full of flashing colourfull characters except for
the "Init Page 6207" in the bottom LH corner of the screen.  I am
using QEMM386 6.0 on a 486DX33 which has 8 megs of memory (2Mb of
which is a ramdisk).  The above is with SET GO32tmp=I:\   where "I"
is a network drive with ~ 700Mb of free disk space.  Pagetest works
fine with a parameter of say 20000.  30000 would be 7500 pages
(30000/4).  This is a consistent error (message) and does not seem to
be a network problem.  The file created on I is:
I:\page1756aa.aaa   20 787 200  (the file size)
This was merely a test to see how slow VM re the Network server would
be.

The readme for DJGPP says that up to 128 Mb of memory can be
allocated.  Is the problem a limitation of QEMM386 6.0?  Does anybody
(perhaps DJ) have any sugestions as to the cause of the problem?  How
does one allocate 128 Mb (using what PC setup)?

Thanks for reading this, and (hopefully) responding,
Tony.
LIP AT odie DOT ee DOT wits DOT ac DOT za