Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfinote!pnl From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Leaky Windows ??? Message-ID: <18950040@hpfinote.HP.COM> Date: 1 Oct 90 23:33:58 GMT Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD Lines: 34 Am I the only one seeing this ? I seems to be seeing Windows leaking system resource. The system resource that you get from the Help menu in PM. According to the SDK, this is calculated from the global or GDI free heap space. And it is limited to 64 K by virture of Intel's 80x86 architecture. When I fire up Windows on my machine. There's about 70 % free system resource. Then, I start DOS session, run paint, notepad, word, etc. etc. Then I close them and get back to my start up configuration. Lo and behold, there's less free system resource ! Sometime, it get as low as 35 % !!! Does this means that Windows programs somehow laid claim to system resource and fail to return them when they are done ? How can I claim that space back ? Does this mean that after runnig Windows for some while, I'll have to exit and restart again because system resource is getting smaller ? .... or is the system resource taken by Windows which manages the swapfile. I noticed that as I played around Windows for a while, the swapfile gets bigger and bigger. Usually starts with about 3 MB and I've seen it grown to > 6 MB. By the way, I don't use permanent swapfile. Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ ... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include