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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Daniel Taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:03:15 +0000
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Subject: Re: Help wanted
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Daniel Taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr> wrote:

> As you may have notices, I have memory problems with DJGPP (in fact perl5004_02=perl.exe). Under
> Win95, it crashes with "Out of memory", which means that the malloc() failed (This happens with
> scripts handling large strings or hundreds of kilobytes).
> 
> Two points:
>  1. The given perl.exe has NOT the debug option, so that the -Dm execution parameter is rejected,
>  2. I have 32Mbyte memory and, with the same memory, the perl script runs in the Win3.11 DOS window.
> 
> Questions:
> a- Does DJGPP (V2) use virtual memory? (not disabled in my Win95)
Yes, but remmember to set the DPMI memory to 65535 in the preferences of your 
MS-DOS direct access icon.

> b- Should I change the parameter/system/memory options which by default are all AUTO (EMS, XMS,
> DPMI). Itried to force XMS and (another time) DPMI to fixed high options, but the memory crash still
> occurs.
Change it to 64Mb of DPMI.

> c- BTW, is there a perl command to check either the amount of memory used or free
> at any moment?
No idea.

Additionally you can recompile the sources with the last djgpp alpha, it have a 
new malloc that wastes less memory. Of course you must understand that IS 
alpha.

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