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Article #2581Re: Allocating a lot of memory (why can't I?)
From: Craig Eisler
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 00:32
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 00:32
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rob@pcad.UUCP (Ralph Brown) writes: > Running Win 3.0 in enhanced mode, there seems to be some limit to how > much memory a windows app can allocate which is much less than the > amount of free virtual memory. With over 7Mb free, I could only do > a Global32Alloc of about 1.3 Mb. A second copy of the same program could > simultaneously get about the same amount leaving about 5Mb still free. Windows 3.0 has some insane restriction on your real-to-virtual ratio when allocating memory in enhanced mode; on a system with 64MB of virtual memory, the maximum I have been able to Global32Alloc is about 18MB. I have been told by those in the know that this silly restriction will leave us in Windows 3.1, but for now, we're just stuck. craig -- Craig Eisler, still hiding from the real world. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!maytag!cgeisler From: cgeisler@maytag.waterloo.edu (Craig Eisler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Allocating a lot of memory (why can't I?) Message-ID: <1991May13.003243.26563@maytag.waterloo.edu> Date: 13 May 91 00:32:43 GMT References: <518@pcad.UUCP> <H4Lg21w163w@coyote.datalog.com> <72271@microsoft.UUCP> Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 18