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- From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
- Subject: Re: various memory questions
- Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
- References: <9208112312.AA03236@midas.teradyne.uucp>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:22:00 GMT
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- In article <9208112312.AA03236@midas.teradyne.uucp>, rogoff@Teradyne.COM (David Rogoff) writes...
- >
- >Hi,
- >I've been running 2.0 on a 486dx/8meg/220meg clone for about a month
- >now. It is generally fine, but I have a few of questions:
- >
- >1) sometimes programs (I think always winos2 stuff) seems to be left
- >running. They don't show up in the WPS list, but when I do a shutdown,
- >it tells me that there are still apps running, and the next time I boot
- >up they appear.
-
- I think this is a bug, some of the DDE stuff remains even after exiting
- WinOS/2.
-
- >
- >2) I get "out of memory" errors for no very obvious reason. I've got
- >my swap set to start at 4meg and grow to within 2meg on a partition
- >with 25meg free! I applied the kernal patch from hobbes and verified
- >that the swap file now shrinks, but I still get this error.
-
- I heard that increasing the SWAPFILE size fixes this error for some
- people. Apparently, the swapfile now shrinks, but it doesn't expand
- for some people.
-
- >
- >3) when I type "mem" in a shell, it opens a new window, displays
- >the memory info, and proceeds to remove this window before I can read it.
- >What's going on??? I've tried to trick it with redirection, but it
- >doesn't work.
-
- MEM is a DOS program (it's in the \os2\mdos directory BTW), so when
- you run it from a OS/2 session, OS/2 starts up a DOS session and then
- runs the program and exits the session. If you change the Close Window
- on Exit option in the Settings you will be able to read it. Personally,
- I have found that there is no reason to worry about memory, I can't
- remember the last time I ran MEM, I guess that comes with running a
- virtual memory OS.
-
- Srikanth
-