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Re: WHAT THE FUCK!?: Memory: 8,742KB Free, System Resources: 0% Free

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From: Kuusisto Pasi Petri,,,SIG,64380
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:22
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From article <C0KF1y.Eqz@newsserver.technet.sg>, by ipser@solomon.technet.sg (Ed Ipser):
> 
> Well, I've narrowed it down. I'm NOT running out of memory, my memory
> requirements are in fact quite modest. I'm running out of "system resources".
> Just what are these system resources that I'm exhausting?
> 
> It is not the case that I have a bunch of icons, pens, brushes or what
> have you. I have only a handful of each and I always deallocate them when
> done. That is not the problem.
> 
> I DO have a number of windows proportional to the size of the document. In 
> the current case, something like 650 windows. Larger documents would require
> still more windows and the current test is rather modest in size and
> complexity compared to what I envision the user doing.

  <some stuff deleted>
 
> So, can anybody tell me how to allocate more system resources? I've got
> plenty of memory, available disk space, etc. Speed of execution does not
> seem to be a problem. My application runs just as fast for 650+ windows
> as it does for 10 windows.
> 
> Or is there some inherent stinginess to the MS Windows system that it won't
> allow me to have so many windows regardless of how much memory and disk
> space I have?

   You got it! There is! 650+ windows will definitely eat it up. Sorry ...
 
> Help me, please!
   
   Tough luck, you lose ...

-zi
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From: pk64380@kaarne.cs.tut.fi (Kuusisto Pasi Petri,,,SIG,64380)
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Subject: Re: WHAT THE FUCK!?: Memory: 8,742KB Free, System Resources: 0% Free
Date: 11 Jan 1993 11:22:01 GMT
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