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Memory question




Here is what may be a stupid question about memory use under
Executor.  I'm probably just missing something simple but 
maybe someone can help me understand what is happening.

I run executor under DOS 6.2 on a machine with "8 megs" of 
ram.  For testing, I turn off any disk cashing by SMARTDRV.
The DOS mem command says:
		Total	Used	Free
Conventional	640	46	594
Upper		0	0	0
Reserved	128	128	0
XMS		7424	64	7360


I do an executor -info command and executor reports:

	5.43 Meg of Potentially useful DPMI Memory
	and assigns the memory as follows:
	applzone	2.71 Meg
	syszone		0.5  Meg
	Stack		0.25 Meg
I presume this all comes out of the 5.43 total it found.

What happened to all the rest of the memory?  Is Executor
itself using it?  That's 1.7 Meg and 5.43 + 1.7 still only
adds up to 7.13.  It would seem there should be a total
memory of 7.36 M + 594 K unused and available.

How does Executor do memory allocation under DOS?

	Dick Frey 


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