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to: Terry Fry
from: David Noon
date: 1996-07-28 18:33:00
subject: 230meg Limit under OS/2?

On Friday, 96/07/26, Terry Fry wrote to Shmuel Metz about "230meg
Limit under OS/2?" as follows:

TF>  SM> This sounds like your SWAPPER.DAT is too small. How much free space do
TF>  SM> you have in the partition it's in?
TF> 
TF> I thought of that too, the swapper file lives on a 6gig RAID 5
TF> partition.

Hi Terry,

It sounds like some processes are allocating shared memory out of the
tiled 512MB area, which would make those address ranges unallocatable
(if there is such a word) for private storage.

TF> Even worse, if I ask for this level of ram, I see strange PM
TF> behaviors.

Perhaps the WPS is one of the culprits.

Regards

Dave


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