Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!sdcc6!sdcc19!sdcc15!pa1022 From: pa1022@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1022) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Swapping to disk Message-ID: <782@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> Date: 6 Dec 88 06:04:41 GMT Reply-To: pa1022@sdcc15.UUCP (Eric Hedstrom) Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 21 From what I can tell, Windows/386 reserves a virtual machine and a default of 640k to run windows applications. It seems to be the amount of free space for winapps in this 640k that the MS-Dos Executive reports on. If you set up PIF files and play around with the numbers a bit, you should be able to fit two fairly large programs, since most programs don't need a full 640k (which is what Win/386 wants to give them) if they don't have to share memory with DOS or anything else. However, this means you have to determine ahead of time how much memory you think your winapps will need, since you have to set that in your WIN.INI file, with the windowmemsize variable. You can't use more than this to run winapps, and you can't use this memory if you need more for oldapps. If I'm wrong on any of this, somebody please correct me. And if you know how Windows/386 decides how much expanded memory to have at any given time, please let me know. Eric