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- From: steck@ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Out of memory error. 6M left though. HELP!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.011136.22390@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 01:11:36 GMT
- References: <1992Aug23.181616.4330@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- In article <1992Aug23.181616.4330@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
- >I just get an out of memory error while ther is 6748k of available
- >memory. All I have running is a communications session, the asteroids
- >game and thats it, when I try to open the shells folder the system
- >starts beeping and presenting me with numurous out of memory errors.
- >Whats up with this, since my 17M ram should be enough to cope with
- >this hands down, shouldn't it?
- >
- >Erik
- >--
- >Erik van Linstee | linstee@duteca.et.tudelft.nl | I'll be back ...
-
- I got this for the first time today. My solution was to shut down,
- reboot to DOS, and delete the swap file. My guess is that
- somehow the swap file got corrupted.
-
- Hmmm, I wonder if there's a virus at play here, since we both
- got this weird error the same day. I haven't had the problem
- since this afternoon, though.
-
- -- Paul
-
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