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GhostScript 8.71 for DOS (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 23.05.2012, 05:39

> It may be problem specific to your system hw/bios/freedos. I use JEMMex
> with EMS enabled and don't have any instant crashes of DPMI apps. My memory
> report:
> [code]
> | Extended | 67,043,328 ( 65,472K ) | 0 (
> 0K) |
> | Extended via XMS | -------- | 3,486,466,048
> (3,404,752K) |
> | EMS | 33,947,648 ( 33,152K ) | 33,554,432 (
> 32,768K) |
>
> I use DOS 6.22 as reference and here's my part of config.sys:
>
> DEVICE=C:\DOS\JEMMEX.EXE A20METHOD:FAST XMSHANDLES=64 SPLIT SB FASTBOOT
> VERBOSE

I think default is "MAX=120000" (aka, 120 MB) of EMS for JEMM386. So the "32 MB" above is probably misreported. And I'm pretty sure some programs / extenders try to eat up more than that despite XMS also existing.

My problem was (effectively) using "XMSHANDLES=128 MAX=0 NOEMS" or "XMSHANDLES=128 MAX=512000" or thereabouts. CWSDPMI got confused (though whether that's also due to 150 MB XMS RAM disk, I dunno, but the simple answer is that all these memory things are a bit wonky under stress).

It's not lacking the RAM, sadly, it's trying to figure out which to use where, and these apps obviously can't handle it very well.

Complete thread:

• FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 13:32 (Announce)
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Arjay, 05.05.2012, 15:36
    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 16:30
      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Arjay, 05.05.2012, 17:51
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Wengier, 05.05.2012, 22:40
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 06.05.2012, 20:34
    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 07.05.2012, 18:20
      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 08.05.2012, 03:48
        • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 08.05.2012, 05:44
          • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 08.05.2012, 21:45
            • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 06:51
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 09.05.2012, 07:53
                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 08:43
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 20:23
                    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 22:39
                    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 10.05.2012, 14:21
                      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 10.05.2012, 22:04
                        • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 11.05.2012, 00:22
                          • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 11.05.2012, 08:07
                            • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 11.05.2012, 22:27
                              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - RayeR, 12.05.2012, 00:36
                                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 12.05.2012, 08:40
                                  • GhostScript 7.05 for DOS - Rugxulo, 13.05.2012, 01:44
                                    • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - georgpotthast, 13.05.2012, 10:00
                                      • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 22.05.2012, 01:07
                                        • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - RayeR, 23.05.2012, 00:51
                                          • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 23.05.2012, 05:39
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 10.05.2012, 18:02
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 08:29