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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!csd.unb.ca!news
- From: hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen)
- Subject: Resources in Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.181513.597@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Summary: Where have all my resouces gone.
- Sender: Hugh Whalen
- Organization: Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:15:13 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- I had a rather strange thing happen today. I went to open an
- application and received a low memory notice. Since I have 8 MB of RAM
- and a 10 MB swap file this was not the problem. I did notice, however,
- that my system resources were at 7%. I closed Microsoft Excel and my
- resouces went back up to around 20%. I could then open the
- application. I closed windows, started windows againa and took another
- look at my system resources. After the reboot, the resources were up
- at 77%. This was *exactly* the same desktop (same apps open, same
- bitmap, etc.) that had shown system resources at 20% before the
- closing and opening windows.
-
- Does anybody know what is happening here? Do apps take system
- resources and not release them when the apps are closed? How can I
- prevent this from happening?
-
- Thanks for any help!
-
-
- Hugh Whalen | Where all men think alike, no one
- Faculty of Administration | thinks very much.
- University of New Brunswick | - Walter Lippmann
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- DISCLAIMER: Neither UNB nor I care what the other thinks.
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