Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!andrea From: andrea@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Andrea K. Frankel) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Swapping to disk Message-ID: <1723@hp-sdd.HP.COM> Date: 5 Dec 88 19:51:11 GMT References: <5327@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <245400002@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <5345@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel) Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division Lines: 20 In article <5345@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (D.J. Murdoch - Statistics) writes: >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? I keep "freemem.exe" running as an icon (loaded in my win.ini); this helps in figuring out what's really going on, and has also proved useful in tracking down puzzling "memory leaks" due to drivers mismanaging fonts, etc. It seems to respond pretty quickly, although I couldn't vouch for it being 100% accurage (I mean, what would I check it with?). Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664 "...I brought you a paddle for your favorite canoe." ______________________________________________________________________________ UUCP : {hplabs|nosc|hpfcla|ucsd}!hp-sdd!andrea Internet : andrea%hp-sdd@hp-sde.sde.hp.com (or @nosc.mil, @ucsd.edu) CSNET : andrea%hp-sdd@hplabs.csnet USnail : 16399 W. Bernardo Drive, San Diego CA 92127-1899 USA