Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 03:41:02 -0600
From: Esa Peuha <Esa DOT Peuha AT helsinki DOT fi>
Subject: Re: mem alloc taking up power of 2
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In article <33D5F50B DOT 1053 AT cornell DOT edu>,
  asu1 AT cornell DOT edu wrote:
>
> Esa Peuha wrote:
>
> > So if I write a program that allocates all the memory it can get,
> > writes a file that fills the hard disk, and then begins to fill the
> > memory it has allocated, what will happen when there's no physical
> > free memory left? Obviously the DPMI host must page out some memory,
> > but it can't because there's no free disk space, so it must crash the
> > program. Very nice and intelligent indeed ;-)
>
> well, maybe you think i could run out and get another hard drive and
> install it in your system?

Yeah, right. "It's not _our_ problem that our software won't run with your
hardware. Consider updating it." :-)

Seriously, though, perhaps cwsdpmi could have an option to force all
allocated memory to be paged in immediately.

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