Gan,
At 07:29 AM 13/10/04, you wrote:
I can't speak for Win32, but Unix certainly apportions available memory
so as to not allow one single application to hog too much. I had to
write a script in Perl to convince the OS that it allow more.
Just a guess...but maybe something similar goes in Win32? Anybody
know for certain???
I would be inclined to point the finger at cygwin. Windows allocates a
certain minimum of RAM for each app/window, but I don't think there's a
maximum (e.g. Internet Explorer will take everything you've got!)
I couldn't get DX to use more than 20 MB (large) and 2 MB (small arena) --
until I installed a newer version of cygwin. Now I can use half my RAM; I
haven't tried using more.
Before running DX (or cygwin) I close everything in my system tray except
the essentials, then run RAMbooster (freeware) to recover unreleased memory
from Windows (98).
Regards,
Allen H. Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
Tel: +61 2 9385 3916 Fax: +61 2 9663 2108
