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>> Now watch what is happening with your memory! After few clicks the
>> system has only 512 kb free store left and begins to expand the swap file.
>> It seems like you can fill up any partition (no matter how large) this
>> way :) The memory is being freed but not before I quit the application.
MF>
MF>  I found this too! On my computer I found another strange thing with the
MF> memory of OS/2. My computer has 16MB, starting Beta-OS/2 (clock.exe,
MF> alarm.exe and bitfax.exe as background programs) just leaves 4MB
MF> (printed by memsiz) to my applications -- well, where is the memory?

I guess it is some kind of "lazy" memory management. Like the system
is reading the DLLs needed for some applications (which already happens
while booting) and the memory is not being released unless there are
only 512 kb left. This improves the performance of the system and the
applications as well.

These are only wild guesses (my old Amiga did this sort of things, that's
why ;)), so please correct me if I'm wrong :)

    adios

        Roman

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