Subj : Learned something new to
To   : Ed Vance
From : Barry Martin
Date : Tue Jul 23 2024 07:50:00


Hi Ed!

 > I'm pretty much only using (Virtual) XP for the BBS stuff and haven't
 > fiddled around in ages.  At the Command Promot tyoe 'mem' and see if any
 > hints there.

 > Mine comes out really strangely:

 >     655360 bytes total conventional memory
 >     655360 bytes available to MS-DOS
 >     634048 largest executable program size

 >    1048576 bytes total contiguous extended memory
 >          0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
 >     941056 bytes available XMS memory
 >            MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area
 >
 > I'm thinking maybe the reason you can't open your 40th window is there
 > is not you're out of system memory but rather you're out of memory for
 > whatever application governs the files.

 EV> Barry, don't know what I did a bit ago .
 EV> I must of laid my hand near a part of this phone and what I was
 EV> typing was
 EV> ended                                   

So that's why your priginal reply was so short!


 EV> My XP desktop shows this for MEM in a cmd prompt:
 EV> 655360 bytes total conventional memory
 EV> 655360 bytes available to MS-DOS
 EV> 632800 largest executable program size

 EV> 1048576 bytes total contagious extended memory
 EV> 0 bytes available contagious extended memory
 EV> 941056 bytes available XMS memory
 EV> MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area

Yours is displaying similar to my Virtual Machine XP -- Ky's the expert 
on those numbers so I'l defer to him.


 EV> The CMD prompt is Run As Administrator.
 EV> There are 21 items running on the Taskbar .

Seems like a high number but LIS to Ky earlier I've got quite a few
applications running, some with multiple parts.  LibreOffice has around
eight documents open currently, Remmina has two, so that's ten just 
between those two applications.

I'm half-thinking the solution (besides closing some apps!) is maxxing 
out your RAM. though only 4 GB for a 32-bit OS, or maybe fiddle and 
shrink the stacks size.  IIRC a stack is either full or empty: if set 
for 1024 then 1 through 1023 is a used stack so filled faster than if 
stacks set to 512: you have twice as many stacks and if partially filled
you have more free.  ...And if you're confused I don't blame you: I have
a mental diagram which I'm 'seeing'.



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