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- USER DOCUMENTATION
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- Hogs
- by
- Kamyan Software
- 1228 Narragansett Drive
- Carol Stream Il. 60188
- (CIS) 73447,1114
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- INDEX FOR HOGS
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- 1.0 Introduction
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- 2.0 Disclaimer
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- 3.0 Running Hogs
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- 4.0 Compacting Option
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- 5.0 Showing DLLs
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- 6.0 Update each Second
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- 1.0 Introduction
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- Hogs will display the amount of memory running windows applications use.
- The applications will be sorted from largest to smallest in memory usage.
- Options include showing memory usage of DLL ( dynamic link libraries, and
- windows resources such as fonts ), updating the memory usage every second,
- and compacting memory.
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- 2.0 Disclaimer
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- Kamyan Software makes no representations or warranties with respect to
- this software or documentation, and specifically disclaims any express
- or implied warranties of merchantablilty or fitness for any purpose.
- Further Kamyan Software reserves the right to make changes to any and all
- parts of the software, at any time, without obligations to notify any
- person or organizations. Kamyan Software will not be liable for any special,
- incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or
- any other reason, even if Kamyan Software or an agent of Kamyan Software
- has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall
- Kamyan Software's liability for any damages ever exceed the price paid
- for the license to use the software, regardless of the form of the claim.
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- 3.0 Running Hogs
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- Hogs was designed to run with Windows 3.1. It makes use of the
- toolhelp.dll program which is part of Windows 3.1. It may run with
- Windows 3.0 if the toolhelp.dll program is in the Windows system directory,
- but this has not been tested.
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- When you start Hogs the memory usage of all Windows programs will
- be evaluated, sorted and displayed. Pressing the Evaluate Memory Usage
- button will cause a complete memory evaluation again. You may want to do
- this after loading a new program or after working with a running program.
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- 4.0 Compacting Options
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- The Compact Memory button will force Windows to discard all parts of memory
- that are not currently beening using, when these memory blocks are needed again
- Windows will reload it from disk (hopefully from your Cache). After using this
- option evaluate memory usage again. Now you will see some reordering of memory
- usage. Compacting Memory a few times in a row will sometimes forces more
- memory blocks to be discarded. When using this option the Memory Free total at
- the top of the Memory Hogs does not change. This is because this total takes
- into account all memory areas that can be discarded.
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- If you are running out of memory trying to run a program or when using
- a feature of a program, try using this option right before the operation
- that causes the out of memory problem. I have found that this sometimes helps
- and allows the program to be loaded or operation to take place.
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- 5.0 Showing DLLs
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- Select this check box if you wish to see the memory usage of DLLs. DLLs
- can be parts of programs that can be shared with other programs, or
- data resources used by Windows program. DLLs are not added in to the
- memory usage tally for program since DLLS can and often are shared by
- multiple programs. However some DLLS are used by only one program,
- so keep this in mind when trying to determine how much memory a program uses.
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- 6.0 Update each Second
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- Selecting this check box will cause Hogs to evaluate memory usage
- each second. Turn this option on and then preform some operations in a
- program to see how the memory used by the program changes based on
- different operations.
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