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- From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
- Subject: Re: Resources in Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.140700.14963@walter.cray.com>
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 14:07:00 CST
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- Hugh Whalen (hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca) wrote:
- : 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!
-
- I noticed the same thing with some applications not releasing their
- resources. It is up to the programmer to fix this as far as I know.
- Nothing the user can do can prevent this from happening. However, if
- I am wrong, please correct me, and let us know how to recover those
- resources without restarting Windows.
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- Tom Huot
- huot@cray.com
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