Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!chrisr From: chrisr@cognos.UUCP (Christine Roine) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Allocating a lot of memory (why can't I?) Message-ID: <9672@cognos.UUCP> Date: 24 May 91 21:49:00 GMT References: <518@pcad.UUCP> <72462@microsoft.UUCP> <524@pcad.UUCP> Reply-To: chrisr@cognos.UUCP (Christine Roine) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 15 In article <524@pcad.UUCP> rob@pcad.UUCP (Ralph Brown) writes: >The max size I can get (3.1MB) seems to not be a function of my virtual >memory size. If I increase the swap file a lot (from 4MB to 16 MB with >4MB RAM), there is no increase in the max mem size. Right. Windows is set up so that Virtual Memory is limited to no more than 4 * Physical Memory. Increasing your swap file to greater than this size is useless. -- Christine Roine Cognos Incorporated S-mail: P.O. Box 9707 Voice: (613) 738-1338 x6205 3755 Riverside Drive FAX: (613) 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario UUCP: mitel!cunews!cognos!chrisr CANADA K1G 3Z4