Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:07:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: nikki <nikki AT gameboutique DOT co>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: big fat swap
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On 9 Feb 1997, nikki wrote:

> well it gives 15meg free memory and 99meg free virtual memory on the first
> machine (the one it runs on) and almost no free memory and 99meg free on the
> second. so that seems to be the problem alright :)

Yes.

> i only had cwsdpmi.exe on the other machine before, that is right isn't it?

Yes.  What is your DPMI host on the machine that swaps?

> the config.sys and autoexec.bat are uneditable on the second machine (it
> boots from a remote network)

Can you at least copy them and post them here?  If not, then post these 
items instead:

	* the output of "mem /c"
	* the output of "set"

> experienced enough to go about editing these files. can i force dpmi to use
> the memory? i know it's available as nothing else is using it, i have no 
> idea why it isn't 'seen' by go32 :(

Some other software has taken up all of the extended memory, so it isn't
available to DPMI programs.  The question is: what software is that?  My
guess would be that it is some memory manager that is installed at boot
time, but only a glance at CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT will tell for sure.