8 meg extended memory but only .8 meg in global heap?

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From: fred jarvis
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 08:45

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    GlobalCompact never returns more than .8 on our 486 system
with 8 meg extended memory.  (This happens in an application
we are developing and in a slightly modified version of Petzold's
FREEMEM program from his book.)  Doesn't GlobalCompact return
the amount of global heap space?  Shouldn't this be more than .8?
(after a cold boot into Windows)

    CONFIG.SYS contains HIMEM.SYS.  All of the HIMEM.SYS /M optons
have been tried, without success.

    Any thoughts?

    Fred Jarvis    ferdie@coyote.datalog.com

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