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to: Peter Hansen
from: Kim Kruse Hansen
date: 1994-07-08 11:26:36
subject: Mem above 16MB

Hello Peter!

04 Jul 94, Peter Hansen writes to Thomas Meyer:

 PH> In a message on 07-02-94, Thomas Meyer said to Stacy Smith:

 SS>> I have 16 as well (don't want to go higher or I'm afraid I'll lose
 SS>> the bus-mastering ability of my Adaptec SCSI HA on my ISA bus),

 PH>   :

 TM>> Bus-mastering will work, but the memory above 16 MB is only used for
 TM>> swapping by OS/2, not as "real" memory.

 PH>   :
 PH> describe a test or a reliable source for information or tell me straight
 PH> out that you are _certain_ my extra 4MB is only swap space?  I that were
 PH> the case I might as well sell it.

You mention , that you have OS20MEMU. If you can see a difference with the
SWAPPER.DAT size that OS20MEMU reports and the physical file
\os2\system\swapper.dat then OS/2 is using your RAM as swapping area :-(

Kim

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