Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 07:40:58 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Sven Vahlne <svahlne AT mail DOT algonet DOT se>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: dpmi-trouble
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On Sun, 18 Feb 1996, Sven Vahlne wrote:

> works fine. Thank you for the advice! The version number of my QEMM is 7.5.
> It seems that not all distributions with that version number are bad, just
> some with certain dates on the files. I also increased the swapfile size for
> QDPMI. I have 100 meg free on the harddisk, but I'm not sure what maximum
> size I should ideally put on the swapfile. 

Now for the bad news.  Virtual memory is broken in QDPMI which comes with 
QEMM 7.5: you'll never get more memory than is physically available.  So 
if you continue using that version, it doesn't matter at all what size of 
swapsize do you specify.

Upgrade to QEMM 8, this problem was fixed there.