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ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu wrote:
>WP4W 5.2 behaves much better now under
>OS/2 than 5.1.  It now longer leaves a process called -zombie- (by a
>utility called PSPM2 that can be found at Hobbes) running after it
>is closed.  Now I really believe that WP did make  some efforts to
>let it run OK under OS/2. However, under OS/2 2.1 beta, I can not
>let it choose a windoze printer driver.  Anybody has got similar
>problem? 

I'm using OS/2 2.0 GA+SP and the printer set up worked OK for me.
Otherwise I think that WP 5.2 fW isn't really optimized for OS/2:it
eats up 40 % of the system resources (leaving only 38-40 % free in my
two systems). It might be this that makes the program prone to random
crashes and weird behavior. As a comparison, Word for Windows 2.0
leaves 70 % free system resources. Even the WP File Manager consumes
surprisingly large slices of the resources. Also, I have had to
increase the DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT to 4 MB in order to avoid the "not
enough memory" messages with WP 5.2.  BTW, in plain vanilla Windows
3.1, WP 5.2 fW doesn't appear to use much more system resources than
other programs, memory usage is quite heavy, however. Is it the Win
3.0 code in OS/2 2.0 that WP 5.2 is not comfortable with?

I remeber reading from somewhere that when free system resources go
down to 30s and below, Windows tends to get unstable? Is it so?

Olli
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