Re: Win-OS2 VDM chewing up cpu

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From: John Ballment
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00

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peteln@smtp.hkstar.com wrote:
: In <3348421D.5F16@aljan.com.au>, Paul Arnott <parnott@aljan.com.au> writes:
: >idiotxxx@mindless.com wrote:
: >> 
: >> Whenever I close a Win-OS2 application, my system slows down to
: >> a crawl.  I have Watchcat installed and when I activate it, it shows
: >> me the old Win-OS2 VDM is still running, and usually using between
: >> 25-75% of my idle CPU.  The system activity monitor also flatlines
: >> at the top of it's scale.
: >> Killing the VDM through Watchcat alleviates the problem.
: >> 
: >> I've had a look through my win-os2 settings but I can't decide which
: >> of the settings I should alter to correct the problem.
: >> 
: >> Any suggestions would be appreciated
: >> 
: >> Nev..

You haven't got win-os2 session setup as fastload have you.  From what I 
understand the fasload option keep some sort of VDM running ready to start
windows apps.

John

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From: n1237462@droid.student.fit.qut.edu.au (John Ballment)
Subject: Re: Win-OS2 VDM chewing up cpu
Date: 1997/04/08
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