Re: Allocating a lot of memory (why can't I?)

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From: Christine Roine
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 21:49

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In article <524@pcad.UUCP> rob@pcad.UUCP (Ralph Brown) writes:
>The max size I can get (3.1MB) seems to not be a function of my virtual
>memory size. If I increase the swap file a lot (from 4MB to 16 MB with
>4MB RAM), there is no increase in the max mem size.

Right.  Windows is set up so that Virtual Memory is limited to no more than
4 * Physical Memory.  Increasing your swap file to greater than this size
is useless.


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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!chrisr
From: chrisr@cognos.UUCP (Christine Roine)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Allocating a lot of memory (why can't I?)
Message-ID: <9672@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 91 21:49:00 GMT
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