From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: More Info: Help with C++ compiler hanging Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:57:11 -0500 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <34D15DA7.2B21@cs.com> References: <1326049675-286494872 AT mail DOT mtwp DOT k12 DOT pa DOT us> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp229.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Brian Ellis wrote: > > Eli, George, and others > In response to your two questions asking to clarify: > > What I mean by hanging is it runs through it's process but seems to stop at cc1plus. At the top of my DOS window it says what file it is running, it goes through a number of files but gets stuck at cc1plus. It never gives me another prompt. I have to kill the window and start again. Are you sure that it's not running out of memory and paging in the process? Does your hard drive work hard while cc1plus is thrashing away? Does the Win95 System Monitor show any unusual pattern of CPU or hard drive usage? > DPMI memory available: 9635 Kb > DPMI swap space available: 3753 Kb This seems to show that you have very little memory available. How much RAM is installed on your computer, and how much free hard drive space do you have? If I were to risk a guess, I'd say that the DPMI memory setting of your MS-DOS box properties sheet is set to something like "Auto", meaning that Win95 does not give DOS programs as much memory as they need. Try setting the value manually to 65535 Kb and see if that works. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich |"A competent and self-confident person| | aka Fighteer I | is incapable of jealousy in anything.| | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | Jealousy is invariably a symptom of | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | neurotic insecurity." - Lazarus Long| ---------------------------------------------------------------------