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- From: karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Re: WHAT THE FUCK!?: Memory: 8,742KB Free, System Resources: 0% Free
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 12:47:16 GMT
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- In <1irl8pINNout@cs.tut.fi> pk64380@kaarne.cs.tut.fi (Kuusisto Pasi Petri,,,SIG,64380) writes:
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- >From article <C0KF1y.Eqz@newsserver.technet.sg>, by ipser@solomon.technet.sg (Ed Ipser):
- >>
- >> Well, I've narrowed it down. I'm NOT running out of memory, my memory
- >> requirements are in fact quite modest. I'm running out of "system resources".
- >> Just what are these system resources that I'm exhausting?
- >>
- >> I DO have a number of windows proportional to the size of the document. In
- >> the current case, something like 650 windows. Larger documents would require
- >> still more windows and the current test is rather modest in size and
- >> complexity compared to what I envision the user doing.
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- Windows allocates the memory needed for windows in the USER local heap, which
- in Windows 3.0 is 64kb, so no matter how much Global memory you have
- the USER heap stays at max 64kb (might be 128kb in 3.1).
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- > You got it! There is! 650+ windows will definitely eat it up. Sorry ...
- >
- >> Help me, please!
- >
- > Tough luck, you lose ...
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- Describe your application, maybe the group can suggest solutions.
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- Cheers.
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- Karl.
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