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- No clean up, same hard drives.
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- On Sun, 23 Jul 1995, Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote:
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- > >>>>> "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
- >
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