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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 32bit graphics engine, etc...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.192322.1156@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:23:22 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.215024.24160@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Aug25.124426.28653@news.uiowa.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug25.124426.28653@news.uiowa.edu> williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) writes:
- >From article <1992Aug24.215024.24160@njitgw.njit.edu>, by dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap):
- >> Because the driver will use 32-bit pointers and offsets, etc., it will
- >> be able to keep track of more window objects at once (I think the
- >> 16-bit GRE has problems with more than about 150 objects on-screen at
- >> once, and pops up the "out of memory" dialog when it uses more than
- >> them - the same rumor said that the swapfile partition filled before
- >> the 32-bit GRE ran out of object handles).
- >
- >I've gotten the "Out of Memory" message just by opening a disk icon
- >with too many files in it, even though most of them were outside the bounds
- >of the window.
-
- It doesn't matter if they're on-screen. Each object, if it's been
- created, has a handle into some system table. This table is a limited
- size. The limit is imposed by 64K segments (the 16-bit memory model
- is a 286 model). Minimize some other windows, and you should avoid
- the problem. Minimized windows give up their handles until they are
- restored.
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