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- Subject: OS/2's memory management
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.085715.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
- From: ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:57:15 GMT
- Sender: root@parsifal.umkc.edu (Parsifal Administration)
- Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
- Lines: 31
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- >I have been using GTAR to back up about 160meg to tape. All has worked
- >well until last night when it aborted saying 'Not enough memory'. I
- >have 16megs and a good deal of space for my swap file and GTAR was the
- >only thing running.
- >
- >I suspect it was due the huge number of small files containing source
- >code on my system as this is the only major change since my last
- >backup.
- >
- >Has anyone alse had this problem and found a solution?
- >
- >
- >Trevor Lampre
-
- I have encountered the 'Not enough memory' many times. Even after closing
- almost everything when you see the message, I still can not start another
- or the app I wanted to start.
-
- A very quick example is to try to manipulate many icon objects. I d/l'ed
- planty of very colorful icons (>1000) from the IBM-NSC-BBS. Each icon
- file occupies about 888 bytes on disk. I tried to put all of them in a
- folder naturally called 'Icons' under the desktop folder, but cannot see
- all of them at the same time when opening the folder. The system is running
- out of memory. OK, I gave up. But then you cannot do other things freely
- because the occupied memory seems not released after closing the icons folder.
- I suppose there is something really wrong with OS/2's memory management!
-
- G.H. Dai
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