20MB and memstat only sees 6 !

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From: Peter Forster
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:02

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I have the GA+SP running on a computer with 20MB installed (I also use
an Adaptec 1542B, so maybe I can only use 16MB as real RAM other than swap
space). Right after booting the system, I open an OS/2 window and call
memstat, which reports the largest continuous block of memory as only about
5-6MB! Why is OS/2 fragmenting its memory like that? I don't load anything
unusual in config.sys (except for SCSI Tape support and quite a few environment
variabes), so there must be more memory available.

Is there anything like a memory-defragmenter, or at least a program that
can show me which drivers and programs are where in memory?

Any help will be appreciated.

Peter

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Subject: 20MB and memstat only sees 6 !
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