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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:14:41 +0000
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Subject: Re: EMM386 limiting memory to 32Mb
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Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) wrote:
> Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) (salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar) wrote:
> : ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg) wrote:
> 
> : > Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) (salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar) wrote:
> : > :   What's the best way to use more than 32Mb of memory under DOS 6.X?
> : > 
> : > How about making a BIG ramdisk and copy djgpp/{bin,include,lib} to it
> : > and setting the PATH accordingly?
> 
> : Currently I have 4Mb ramdisk for compiler temporals and 8Mb of cache. 
> : But it won't help when ld or cc1plus will try to use more than 28Mb 
> : of memory because I'll get a swap (swap files can be only in real 
> : disks). In fact I was forced to enlarge the cc1plus and ld stacks to 
> 
> Maybe I missunderstand you, but you can swap to a ramdisk. Not that it would 
> do much good if it's program size that is the problem.

Swap in a non physical disk? hmmm.... I don't know.
 
> : 2Mb (if I remmember well) so they have 26Mb discounting 1Mb of code 
> : lets around 25Mb .... not enough because it will swap a lot. Using 
> : this EMM386 I get 52Mb of XMS letting 45Mb for the data ... I hope it 
> : will avoid most of the swap ;-)
> 
> Hmm, can't CWSDPMI use extended memory directly? Thus no EMM386, hence 
> perhaps no 32MB limit?

Yes but then I can't run any DOS program because the base memory is 
reduced from 600Kb to 450Kb (free memory I mean).

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