Figure 12.2
The program mode
of the Mem utility
describes the way
applications use
memory.
/DEBUG or /D
Displays the status of the programs, internal drivers, and other elements of the
command prompt. Use this command line switch to identify potential problems at the command
line prompt. The output from this command line switch looks like a very detailed version of the
program output shown in Figure 12.2.
/CLASSIFY or /C
Displays the programs based on memory usage. Categorizes the programs
by size, provides a list of memory in use, and displays the largest memory block available. Use
this command line switch to check for potential problems in memory allocation. As shown in
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Figure 12.3, the classify view is a little more readable than the other views and offers the memory
allocation sizes in decimal. In addition, you can see the use of upper memory with greater ease.
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Not all older applications require more memory. A few older applications actually fail when
they have too much memory. If your efforts to run the application fail when it has as much memory
as possible, try reducing the available memory.
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