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- From: lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 won't free up memory! Even when not in use.
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 13:18 CST
- Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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- In article <1993Jan6.051031.20678@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes...
- ->In article <baloo.726274300@mik.uky.edu> baloo@nx01.mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:
- ->>When i'm in the settings option to find an icon, i have about 2000 icons to
- ->>choose from, after i choose my icon for the app the system starts dieing.
- ->>Apps quit responding to the system and i can't open any more windows.
- ->>It tells me to close some windows to free up memory but that does no good.
- ->>What am i doing wrong? I alwasy end up rebooting after selecing icons.
- ->
- ->This bug was apparently fixed with the Service Pak. The Service Pak
- ->is available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
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-
- It didn't fix it on mine. I open PSPM2 whenever I'm working with
- large numbers of icons-that way when it finally starts giving me out of
- memory errors, I can kill pmshell to return it to normal. It seems to run
- slower after this, so I usually save my data and reboot soon thereafter.
-
- Ctrl-Esc just doesn't cut it sometimes!!
-
- LISA
-