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echo: os2prog
to: Mario Semo
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1996-05-29 23:30:36
subject: Toolkit 1.3 from Devcon

MS> whats about MEMMAN=COMMIT? will the memory be back-
 MS> up'ed by swap-space? i think so.

No.  Don't confuse address space with RAM.  With the 386 hardware, you can
designate an address space of any size;  then back it with no or little
physical ram.

The only problem the 64k issue you have found is the erosion of your
processes 512MB address space.  No memory is wasted (outside of the 4k page
physical size slack).

 MS> (i assume that WARP connect means also WARP with a 
 MS> fixpack >= 5. I run WARP FP5 and it still allocates 
 MS> 64K).

Don't use the word "allocate" when referring to this problem -- I
think "reserves address space" is better.


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