Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 09:42:05 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: available DPMI swapspace in djgpp v1 and v2
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On 10 Apr 1996, Alexander Lehmann wrote:

> So either the detection of free space is broken in go32-v2 or there is less
> space available to djgpp2 programs than there is to djgpp v1 programs

Neither.  In v2, the amount of swap space is what the DPMI server 
reports, so it depends of the settings of the DPMI host (Windows in your 
case).  I don't know what does Win95 do when it only has that few free 
disk space, but I doubt it'd do something too smart.  In v1, the swap 
space, even in DPMI mode, was managed by go32 itself.

What go32-v2 reports, is consistent with what Win95 users say (and the 
FAQ repeats after them): Win95 won't let you allocate more than half of 
the available memory (1.8MB is half of 3.5MB).

> which I will do now. After reading other posts in the group, I also tried
> setting the DPMI memory from automatic to 64M, but this doesn't seem to
> affect the values.

I doubt if it should, with that low amount of disk space.