Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Swapping to disk Message-ID: <245400005@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 5 Dec 88 14:29:00 GMT References: <5327@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:watdcsu.waterloo.edu:5327:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:245400005:000:544 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald Dec 5 08:29:00 1988 >Thanks for your reply - you were right that I could run two small programs. >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? Windows does tell how much is left. What it doesn't tell is how much the next program will need. That is much bigger than stated in the pif file. I haven't figured out how to do it.