From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: problem with malloc in djgpp?
Date: 14 Mar 1997 04:59:39 GMT
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> |> That's because the value returned by `_go32_dpmi_remaining_virtual_memory' 
> |> *includes* the free physical memory.  When you add the two, you get 
> |> larger amount than what you actually have, so `malloc' fails.

Well, RHIDE tells me under DOS it has 70 free virtual megs, 7 free
physical ones. When I go into Windows, it says 1 free virtual and 5 free
physical. So, since I have seen virtual < physical, virtual cannot be
physical PLUS swap unless I have a negative amount of swap space!

On the other hand, I find it very difficult to believe that Windows uses
up 69 megabytes of swap, especially when I set it to only use 20 and on a
different disk than my DJGPP swap file. So why DJGPP only coughs up one
meg of virtual in Windows I don't know. (The 5 physical, I assume, is
because the Windows kernel and locked memory in other apps add up to 2.)

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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh