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- From: marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: CSD and a growing swapper.dat
- Message-ID: <722427410marten.marten@feki.toppoint.de>
- Sender: marten@feki.toppoint.de
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 10:16:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov21.201327.6354@abo.fi> <4450@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
- Organization: Private OS/2 System
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- In article <4450@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:
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- >I too was having the same problem (16 mb ram, no apps running and 12+ mb
- >swap file) The solution turned out to be to get rid of the background bitmap.
- >Apparently, the CSD/32-bit GRE has some trouble with remembering that it no
- >longer needs memory that it has swapped out to disk when it comes to
- >graphics on the desktop. I got rid of the background and have a solid color
- >now and I have a manageable swapfile
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- Same problems with the beta on the CD-ROM, swap file is growing very
- early, but it does not shrink to the original size back ... but I've
- seen the swap file shrinking but only with minimal success: From 12MB to
- 9MB with just the desktop running .. :-)
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- MF
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- Marten Feldtmann, Kieler Str. 29, 2300 Kiel 14, Germany
- E-Mail: marten@tpki.toppoint.de, FAX possible
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