Re: Swapping to disk

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From: Andrea K. Frankel
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1988 19:51

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In article <5345@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (D.J. Murdoch - Statistics) writes:
>I'm very confused about how to determine how much memory is available, 
>however.  The numbers given by the MSDOS Executive don't seem to bear
>much relation to reality - is there a utility somewhere that will tell me
>how much memory is really available for additional windows?

I keep "freemem.exe" running as an icon (loaded in my win.ini); this
helps in figuring out what's really going on, and has also proved useful
in tracking down puzzling "memory leaks" due to drivers mismanaging
fonts, etc.  It seems to respond pretty quickly, although I couldn't
vouch for it being 100% accurage (I mean, what would I check it with?).


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
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From: andrea@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Andrea K. Frankel)
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Subject: Re: Swapping to disk
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Date: 5 Dec 88 19:51:11 GMT
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