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   Message 980 of 2,978   
   Marco van de Voort to VBDis   
   Re: FPC Questions   
   27 Sep 04 00:02:15   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2004-09-26, VBDis  wrote:   
   > Im Artikel <41527344$0$24794$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de>, Markus Humm   
   > schreibt:   
   >   
   >>> Maybe we should simply remove memavail.   
   >>   
   >>If you do, you should provide a raliable way to tell the program the   
   >>limits, since it may be good to check these before doing huge processing   
   >>tasks which need much memory and the discovering: oh, memory and swap   
   >>space are full...   
   >   
   > It's very unlikely that the system runs out of swap space, unless the user   
   > configured it for an inappropriately low amount. The hard limit of available   
   > logical address space is independent from the amount of RAM and swap space,   
   > it's only limited by the logical address space between the statically loaded   
   > application and the system reserved address space.   
      
   Afaik most plain dos DPMI host directly commit memory? So reserved memory   
   equals used memory, written or not.   
      
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