Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:17:41 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Go32-v2 says DPMI can't see all of my hard drive. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote: > I run go32-v2 with no args under Windows 9x, and it tells me > > DPMI memory available: 26201 Kb > DPMI swap space available: 36027 Kb > > I have a 6 gig hard disk with 3 gig free. Where is the rest > of the swap space? You probably expected Windows to let you use all your free disk space as virtual memory, did you? Well, guess again... Windows only lets you use up to 64MB of DPMI memory (section 15.6 of the FAQ explains how to set the DOS box properties for that). If you have more than 64MB physical RAM installed, Windows will let you use up to that number, give or take several MB, provided that you leave the DPMI memory property at Auto. But that's it. If you need more memory, use CWSDPMI in plain DOS, and help Charles Sandmann test the beta version of the next release which will support up to 2GB.