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- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Cann't Increase EMS for DOS session, why?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.165828.1984@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 16:58:28 GMT
- References: <zhao.725416293@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <zhao.725416293@unixg.ubc.ca> zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao) writes:
- >
- > I have a 486/dx with 8 MB RAM. However, I couldn't increase EMS for
- > a DOS program beyond about 3 MB by changing DOS setting for this program.
- > (EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT=8196, for example).
- > Am I correct to assume with virtual memory I can have as much EMS as I want?
- > Thanks for any help.
- > P.S. I was able to have EMS more than 5 MB on another machine with similar
- > setup. There may be a trick I don't know.
-
- How do you know it won't go higher than 3 megs? I have never seen this. You
- should be able to set it for up 32Megs of EMS. It is only virtual, after all.
- How big is your swap file and how much free space have you got on your
- swapping partition?
-
- Steve
-
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