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

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From: Karl Thoroddsen
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:47
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In <1irl8pINNout@cs.tut.fi> pk64380@kaarne.cs.tut.fi (Kuusisto Pasi Petri,,,SIG,64380) writes:

>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?
>> 
>> 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.

Windows allocates the memory needed for windows in the USER local heap, which
in Windows 3.0 is 64kb, so no matter how much Global memory you have
the USER heap stays at max 64kb (might be 128kb in 3.1).

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

Describe your application, maybe the group can suggest solutions.

Cheers.

Karl.

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