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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 15:47:57 +0100
- From: Roman_Grzondziel@freax.fido.de (Roman Grzondziel)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 memory management (ARGH!)
- Message-ID: <1b9dd34b@p11.f9.n242.z2.fidonet.org>
- References: <9e8b9b86@feki.toppoint.de>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- X-Comment-To: (Marten Feldtmann)
- Organization: High End Point:
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- >> Now watch what is happening with your memory! After few clicks the
- >> system has only 512 kb free store left and begins to expand the swap file.
- >> It seems like you can fill up any partition (no matter how large) this
- >> way :) The memory is being freed but not before I quit the application.
- MF>
- MF> I found this too! On my computer I found another strange thing with the
- MF> memory of OS/2. My computer has 16MB, starting Beta-OS/2 (clock.exe,
- MF> alarm.exe and bitfax.exe as background programs) just leaves 4MB
- MF> (printed by memsiz) to my applications -- well, where is the memory?
-
- I guess it is some kind of "lazy" memory management. Like the system
- is reading the DLLs needed for some applications (which already happens
- while booting) and the memory is not being released unless there are
- only 512 kb left. This improves the performance of the system and the
- applications as well.
-
- These are only wild guesses (my old Amiga did this sort of things, that's
- why ;)), so please correct me if I'm wrong :)
-
- adios
-
- Roman
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