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In <BxuAFo.Fqt@ns1.nodak.edu> Brett G Person  writes:
>In article <721559538marten.marten@feki.toppoint.de> marten@feki.toppoint.de (Ma
>rten Feldtmann) writes:
>>In article <1b68f11e@p11.f9.n242.z2.fidonet.org> Roman_Grzondziel@freax.fido.de
> (Roman Grzondziel) writes:
>>
>
>> A question:  why are there always 512 KB available ?
>>
>My guess is that 512K is theminimum amount of memory that OS/2 will need to
>do things like a load, save, or swap.  I started using OS/2 with the minimum
>memory required ( $M) and quickly added another two.  From hat I can tell,
>OS/2 is still reserving 512K.
>
>I'm planning on adding more memory when memory prices sablize.
>

  Not exactly... On OS/2 1.x, DosMemAvail was the largest block
of memory available. This does not make sense with OS/2 2.0, because
of paging hardware.
  I understand that Boca decided to always show at least 512Kb
of free memory to *16bit* applications, because a few of them
will just stop working if DosMemAvail returns 0.
  So right now:
     DosMemAvail = max (512Kb, free pages)

  If you really want the amount of free memory, you need SPM/2, to be released
RSN (System Performance Monitor/2)

-Joel Armengaud