Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 11:59:12 -0500
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: raney AT metacard DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Malloc returns NULL prematurely in 1.11

> Question: Why is it that when you run out of space in /tmp, malloc
> returns NULL, even when there is still gobs of RAM left, at least
> according to the DV/X memory monitor?  Is a complete mirror of the
> process being kept on disk, or DV/X just lying about the available
> RAM?

Use "go32" to determine how much ram *go32* thinks is available.
Chances are, if you ran out of swap space, it was because you've
already used up all your physical memory.