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- From: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Out of memory error. 6M left though. HELP!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.082801@axion.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 07:28:01 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.130324.21087@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1992Aug25.124051@axion.bt.co.uk> <1992Aug27.102026.17275@actrix.gen.nz>
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- Reply-To: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
- Organization: British Telecom Research Labs
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- In article <1992Aug27.102026.17275@actrix.gen.nz>,
- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug25.124051@axion.bt.co.uk>
- |> djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson) writes:
-
- [my original posting deleted]
-
- |>
- |> I discovered something that might be useful. If you have
- |> any DOS programs
- |> running and they don't need to be active in the
- |> background.....then turn off
- |> the background execution in the settings. If you DON'T,
- |> then they stay in
- |> memory - doing nothing - and you get these annoying
- |> out-of-memory errors
- |> because.......as often as not......you ARE out of memory.
- |>
- Yeah, I know - however as I said my swapper.dat absolutely
- refuses to grow
- above its' initial size of 2 Meg, and this is the cause of
- the "Out of memory"
- errors on MY system with the new kernel.
-
- My swapper.dat usually grew to 4 Meg with the old kernel
- therefore I tried initialising swapper.dat to 6 Meg (bigger
- than I've ever
- "grown" it normally) and the error messages didn't pop up.
- Starting it as 3 Meg
- produced the error message when I opened winos2 and two other
- apps. Restoring
- the old kernel (and swap file size set at 2 Meg) allowed me
- to open 25 apps
- before I got fed up (by then swapper.dat was 8 Meg in size) -
- and no error
- messages. (Same first three apps used). I therefore concluded
- that the new
- kernel was the cause of the fixed size of swapper.dat on my
- PS/2 - this was
- the only change made.
-
- I would therefore advise anyone else getting "Out of Memory"
- errors to try
- reinstalling their original os2krnl to see if the problem
- then goes away.
-
-
-
-
- David J Jackson Telephone +44 473 645805
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