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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Distribution: jadpc2
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 17:08:46 -0800
- From: Craig_Swanson@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
- Subject: Re: OS2SYS.INI file keeps growing to > 5 MB
- Comment-To: Jonathan_Bruce_Hacker@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
- Message-ID: <2b0ae91e@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org>
- Reply-To: Craig_Swanson@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
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- >>By os2sys.ini has creeped up to 140K recently, so I'll have to reset
- it
- >>again when it gets too big. 4, 5, 6 megs for OS2sys.ini is way too
- big.
- >>this is a bug.
-
- JBH> It might help if someone used one of the ini editors to see
- actually
- JBH> what is in these huge files. That should be a big clue!!
-
- I suspect that the files might be growing because of freespace
- fragmentation leaving lots of little freespace regions that are not
- big enough to use for anything. This could happen easily if key
- values were changed often.Without studying the way that the INI files
- store data, however, this is just a guess.
-
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