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- Path: sparky!uunet!nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at!awiwuw11!rony
- Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 12:08:15 CET
- From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Message-ID: <93021.120815RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: 2.1b: Memory leakage ?
- Lines: 26
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- If starting programs (especially Windows or Windows-programs) repeatedly
- (and closing them in the meantime) the swapper file grows continuosly without
- rendering the allocated space. I know that OS/2 does not shrink the swapper-
- file immediately all the time, but shrinking never occurs on those.
-
- In order to present a case to reproduce at least one way of what appears to
- be leaking memory I tried the following: I started and closed PMGlobe a couple
- of times (used to eat memory on pre-beta-versions). Now it seems that it
- works, except: after having one incarnation of PMGlobe running I opened and
- closed another program (Color Palette) and thereafter closed PMGlobe. From then
- on I started PMGlobe and closed it as before, except that I did not wait for
- PMGlobe to finish drawing the world. From there on I continuosly started to
- loose memory...
-
- ---rony
- P.S.: My machine now is equipped with 24MB of memory due to the amount of
- programs I am running at the same time, including various Windows apps (Excel,
- Lotus 1-2-3, Word4Win, AmiPro, CorelDraw) and OS/2 programs like ORACLE (data-
- base plus all tools plus CASE-designer, ER-diagrammer etc.) and of course
- various network stuff (TCP/IP client and servers) and a couple of additional
- utilities and DOS-programs. The funny thing: those programs ran on 16MB as
- well as now on 24MB with the beta-release of OS/2 ! Maybe one should really
- evaluate the needs of additional RAM for OS/2, it may be very well the case
- that one can work satisfactory with 4 - 8 MB with this new version, depending
- on the amounts of programs you choose to run (in my case sometimes well over
- 20 apps, most of them very resource-demanding).
-