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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP
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Subject: Microsoft C 4.0 spawn is a memory hog
Message-ID: <3605@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 16:11:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 16:11:35 1987
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Organization: InfoSolv Corporation; Columbus, OH. (guest of Ohio State U.)
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We have a program called memfree.exe that just prints out the
available memory.  Memfree always agrees with chkdsk. 

We wrote a program that does nothing but spawns memfree and returns.
Running memfree from dos shows 70K more available than running memfree
from our spawn test program (that is, of course, running under dos). 

Why does spawn eat up 70K?  Is there a way around this?

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