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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: OS/2's memory management
- Message-ID: <hatton.716599737@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 23:28:57 GMT
- References: <1992Sep15.085715.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
- Sender: news@cgl.ucsf.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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- ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
- >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!
-
- Well known problem - seems to stem from 16-bit WPS/GRE which only allows a
- limited number of graphic items on-screen (64k stack limit?) at any
- time (includes objects in a window, but not visible). The new kernel
- seems particularly prone to this, at leat from rate of comments here
- and elsewhere.
-
- This all goes away with the 32-bit update coming Real Soon Now (but
- in any case, sooner than NT <wickedgrin>).
-
- Tom
-