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In article <wtuneCAmlk4xEwZx@sonifex.demon.co.uk>
           PAUL@sonifex.demon.co.uk "Paul Schofield" writes:

>In article <8qAklFADAZ4xEwp9@dalton.demon.co.uk>, Leanne Mason
><mace@dalton.demon.co.uk> writes
>>My computer has Windows 3.1, 16Mb of ram, about 70 Mb of unused hard
>>drive and I've used Memmaker to try and manage the memory.
>>When I run PhotoFinish to produce gifs or when I am on the www (using
>>Turnpike software including Netscape) for any length of time I seem to
>>run out of memory. Can anyone suggest why and how it can be corrected.
>>If I run MEM at the Dos prompt before starting WindowsI have 13.5 Mb of
>>memory free in total. 12.9Mb is XMS. When I start windows, I am left
>>with only 1.5Mb in total and only 1024BYTES of XMS. My conclusion is
>>that windows is somehow eating up the meoory. But how can there be so
>>much "resident" just by running windows?
>>Can anyone help?
>
>Try editing the default.pif file I think it has a default of 1Mb XMS

pif files only affect the amount of memory allocated to MSDOS programmes
not Turnpike and other Windows programmes.

Out of memory errors in Windows generally come from one of 3 sources -

1.  Programme bugs which fail to free memory used.
2.  Manipulating large images.
3.  Memory fragmentation where programmes grab the biggest bit of
    memory, use part of it and free the rest resulting in ever
    smaller amounts of memory available for use next time.

The only answer to 1 and 3 is to close Windows down and restart, for
problem 2 you need more memory.

As this is off topic in demon.ip.support I have copied and set 
follow-ups to demon.ip.support.turnpike where someone may have a specific 
insight into your problems.

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Donald Oddy
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