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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA16571 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 21:06:44 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id RAA05674; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 17:59:59 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0saAty-000YbhC; Sun, 23 Jul 95 17:57 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0saAty-00005nC; Sun, 23 Jul 95 17:57 MDT Message-Id: <m0saAty-00005nC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 95 17:57 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: 1.99 Memory In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.950723151007.94519B-100000@navajo.gate.net> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.950723151007.94519B-100000@navajo.gate.net> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Fred" == Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> writes: Fred> Ever since 1.99l or so, I have not been able to run Executor Fred> with EMM loaded unless i specify a smaller applzone. Its Fred> default always said "not enough memory, try a smaller Fred> applzone" I have 12 megs of memory. Starting with 1.99n, we've added a "-info" switch. If you could run Executor with "-info" with various combinations of "-applzone", that might help us figure out what's going on. Fred> However, if I remove 4 megs of it and only have 8 megs, its Fred> default applzone works fine... Is there a bug in its formula Fred> to dtermine how much to set for its applzone? The formula is pretty straightforward. It looks at how much free DPMI memory you have after Executor's already been loaded (Executor takes about 1.5 MB of DPMI memory right off the top, no matter what else is done), then it divides that number in two and uses the result, unless the result is less than 2 MB, in which case it uses 2 MB or > 16 MB, in which case it uses 16 MB. However, it could be that EMM is not very smart and EMM may need disk space for the DPMI memory that is being used, even if there's enough physical memory to hold it all. If that's the case, and you're low on disk space, then the scenario you describe might make sense, since Executor with 12 MB to start with, Executor would use a default applzone size of (12 - 1.5) / 2 = 5.25 MB, but with 8 MB to start with Executor would use a default applzone size of (8 - 1.5) / 2 = 3.25 MB. However, if you're not tight on disk space, I don't know what is going on, but using "-info" and telling us what's happening will probably help. Fred> Now I have 16 megs and it seems to guess its applzone fine. Hmmm... did you maybe clean up some disk space when you added memory? --Cliff ctm@ardi.com