OpenEuphoria

Re: Memory

• Posted by Bert Belder <bbelder at HOTMAIL.COM> Jan 19, 1999
• 962 views

On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:13:06 -0500, Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM> wrote:

>Ralf writes:
>> ANd I know it never tried virtual memory, for the simple fact that I
>> have 2 gb free.. I would notice it using 2 gb from my HD and
>> then removing it again..
>
>Under Windows, Euphoria is limited to the size of the
>Windows swap area on your disk (you can adjust this
>size, but don't bother). Euphoria can't use your
>entire free space on disk.
>
>Under pure DOS, Causeway seems to
>give up after using several megs
>of disk space. I'm not sure what the algorithm is there.

I never run out of memory in pure ms-dos mode, but in windows 95,
it happends. Is it because windows 95 let your swapfile grow and shrink?
Under windows 3.11 this never happends. How is this possible?

Regards

Bert Belder <bbelder at hotmail.com>