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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Tuesday, 25 Aug 1992 22:15:03 CDT
- From: <U28661@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92238.221505U28661@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Out of memory error. 6M left though. HELP!
- References: <1992Aug24.130324.21087@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Lines: 64
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- In article <1992Aug24.130324.21087@donau.et.tudelft.nl>,
- linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) says:
- >
- >>Are you by any chance running the *new* kernel?
- >>I suspect it may have a bug :-(
- >
- >I am afraid I am, can anyone verify the bug though? I thought it was
- >supposed to fix the memory problem but it seems it doesn't. I still
- >find that when I return to the startup state, - that is close everything
- >I started since startup -, the amount of memory left is far less than
- >the amount I started with. I do have to >16Mb patch installed though.
-
- I also installed the new kernel; a few weeks later, I had the dreaded
- PMV2001 (not enough memory) error. One fellow suggested an inelegant
- solution; go back to the old kernal. Here's what he said:
-
-
-
- >buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr)
- >Subject: Re: PMV2001 Not enough memory error - HELP|
- >References: <92232.111937FDBAQ03@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
- ><1992Aug19.115751.21252@actrix.gen.nz>
- >Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 01:18:09 GMT
-
- >[ Steve Withers and Wim Van Holder discuss the infamous PMV2001 and
- >its multiple beeping. ]
-
- >Many people (including myself) have encountered this problem with the
- >new kernel (rev 6.142 or something similar). This new kernel was
- >supposed to fix, among other things, the non-shrinking swap file. For
- >some people, it seems to replace it with a non-growing swap file.
-
- >There are two workarounds for this problem:
-
- > 1. Go back to the old kernel. If you used the installation
- > script supplied with the patch, just do the following:
-
- > [C:\] ATTRIB -H -S -R OS2KRNL
- > [C:\] REN OS2KRNL OS2KRNL.NEW
- > [C:\] REN OS2KRNL.OLD OS2KRNL
- > [C:\] ATTRIB +H +S +R OS2KRNL
-
- > Then, reboot. It's a good idea to either erase the old
- > swapfile (probably called C:\OS2\SYSTEM\SWAPPER.DAT),
- > which requires a floppy boot, or move it to another
- > place by changing the "SWAPFILE=" statement in your
- > "CONFIG.SYS" file.
-
- > 2. Make the initial size of your swapfile so big that it'll
- > never *have* to grow:
-
- > SWAPFILE=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\SWAPPER.DAT 2048 40960
-
- >It's too bad, because the new kernel seems to fix a lot of monitor
- >syncing and WIN-OS/2 problems but the PMV2001's are such a significant
- >problem.
-
- >Kevin Buhr
-
-
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