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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
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  3. From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
  4. Subject: Re: New kernel fix
  5. Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
  6. References: <=1anl3l.genie@netcom.com> <rdippold.714781412@cancun> <1992Aug26.090610@axion.bt.co.uk> <1992Aug26.194631.7176@njitgw.njit.edu>
  7. Message-ID: <29AUG199220493760@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
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  9. Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
  10. Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 04:49:00 GMT
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  15. In article <1992Aug26.194631.7176@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes...
  16. > 
  17. >The "Out of memory" errors you refer to are not really running out of
  18. >memory.  I've run out of memory, and I get a full-screen popup stating
  19. >that the swapper partition is full.  I suspect that this error is due
  20. >to running out of system resources (like window handles, icon
  21. >pointers, etc.).
  22. > 
  23. >I've been saying this a lot recently, could anyone from IBM confirm or
  24. >deny this?
  25.  
  26. I think it's because of the new kernal (6.412).  A lot of people have been
  27. reporting this.  It seems like it fixed the swapfile-doesn't-shrink problem
  28. with a swapfile-doesn't-grow-problem-and-causes-out-of-memory-errors problem.
  29.  
  30. Srikanth
  31. Clinton & OS/2 in '92!
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