NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/35566

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From: [e-mail] (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Questions:  Background Bitmap
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Date: 6 Nov 92 04:23:18 GMT
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I found a really nice GIF that I decided to use as my background, so I
loaded into WinGIF and saved it as a BMP (and converted it from 256 colors
to 256 grayscale since it looks cooler in B&W...very chic).  Anyway,
ever since installing this thing as my background, my sapfile has
started growing IMMENSELY.  I used to stick around 5120k (under the
service pack) and it used to shrink down back to 5120 or so if it ever
grew too far, but if I use the picture as my background, the swapper
gets up to 13 or 14 megs after a while and there doesn't seem to be
any reason why...and it doesn't come down.

The BMP file is only 500k long, so I thought at worst, I'd have 500k more
of memory being thrown around...but it seems like this 500k increases
EVERY TIME the screen is switched to full screen anything and back again.
It seems like OS/2 is actually placing multiple copies of the bmp in
memory and then forgetting to deallocate the space when it is supposed
to.

Can anyone confirm this, or offer some explanation, or anything?

Thanks for the help...

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