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Article #17Re: Running out of memory can anyone advise?
From: Jay Jose
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 00:00
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Man! The same thing happens to me!! I have lotz of XMS in real DOS and when i go to DOS in Windows, i'm left with exactly 1 meg of XMS! Read my post above, its PPL!! MEM IS SCREWED UP!! Maybe we can solve this mystery... jayjose@netcom.ca In article <8qAklFADAZ4xEwp9@dalton.demon.co.uk>, mace@dalton.demon.co.uk says... > >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? >-- >Leanne Mason
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103734,cfec5e181ae6ee40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103734,public X-Google-Thread: 1076d4,cfec5e181ae6ee40 X-Google-Attributes: gid1076d4,public X-Google-Thread: 1004db,cfec5e181ae6ee40 X-Google-Attributes: gid1004db,public X-Google-Thread: fe8f2,cfec5e181ae6ee40 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe8f2,public From: jayjose@netcom.ca (Jay Jose) Subject: Re: Running out of memory can anyone advise? Date: 1996/07/09 Message-ID: <4rt648$bbv@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca> X-Deja-AN: 167345732 distribution: world references: <8qAklFADAZ4xEwp9@dalton.demon.co.uk> content-type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: Netcom Services x-netcom-date: Tue Jul 09 4:43:52 AM EDT 1996 mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win3x,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.x,demon.ip.support