memory usage question

[S. Holmes Consulting Detective]

Can anyone tell me why, on a 24MB 3/260, a large program would only get
about 12MB of memory, when nothing else but unix is running (essentially.
By unix I mean all the daemons, too).  Is there a way to make the thing
get more of the available memory before it starts paging (and subsequently
swamping the network)?

Thanks,
Steve Holmes				purdue!sjh
Systems Administrator			sjh at math.purdue.edu
Dept. of Mathematics			(317) 494-6055
Purdue University
W. Lafayette, Indiana 47907