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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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