From: "A. Sinan Unur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: more than 64Mb dpmi in win95? Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:58:13 -0400 Organization: Cornell University (http://www.cornell.edu/) Lines: 40 Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu (Verified) Message-ID: <36237895.80345DBA@cornell.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: peon-25.leedr.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,tr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, A. Sinan Unur wrote: > > > DPMI memory available: 78219 Kb > > DPMI swap space available: 0 Kb > > > > C:\Dload> > > > > note that dpmi memory is set to 65535 in settings. here's the relevant > > bit from my config.sys > > I might be too dense today, but what exactly is the question? Do you > wonder why Windows lets you use more than you ahve asked for? i was under the impression that dpmi under windows was limited to 64Mb TOTAL so, i was just curious. > > i have win 95 osr2 with vcache limited to 4Mb. > I don't recommend such a low setting. Windows expands and shrinks > the cache as needed, so you shouldn't need to limit it by a fixed > number. > > FWIW, my cache size is usually about 16MB, but a build of a large > package (e.g., Web2C) can take it up to 40MB (on a 64MB machine). I > don't see any problem with these numbers. after extensive experimentation, i decided leaving the cache size fixed was fine, because otherwise windows gobbles up all available physical memory pretty fast. also, my i have the swap file permenantly set at 64 Mb. i think everything runs smoothly. -- Sinan -------------------------------------------------------- A. Sinan Unur Department of Policy Analysis and Management, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 mailto:Sinan DOT Unur AT cornell DOT edu http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/