[comp.os.msdos.programmer] 8 meg extended mem with 486 but only .8 meg in global heap?

ferdie@coyote.datalog.com (fred jarvis) (03/27/91)

   GlobalCompact never returns more than .8 on our 8 meg
extended memory 486 running Windows.  (This happens in an
application we are developing or by modifying Petzold's
FREEMEM program slightly.)  Is something wrong?  I thought
GlobalCompact returned the amount of available memory in the
global heap.
   CONFIG.SYS contains HIMEM.SYS.  Trying other /M options with
HIMEM.SYS doesn't work.

   Any thoughts?
   
   Fred Jarvis ferdie@coyote.datalog.com