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From: chrisg@microsoft.UUCP (Chris GUZAK)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How do I increase "Free system resources"
Message-ID: <59997@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 90 00:16:19 GMT
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In article <1990Dec11.090947.5379@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> gg2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Guy Gallo) writes:
>Actually, increasing the amount of absolute memory has little
>if anything to do with freeing up "resources".  From a message
>posted this week in MSAPP on compuserve by an MS employee it was
>clear that resources are allocated each time you open a dialog box
>or a list box (or a folder full of icons), and that when a program
>exits, those resources are not released.  There is a 64K chunk
>allocated to these resources -- and with a 512 byte chunk here and
>a 512 byte chunk there -- unreleased -- that 64k becomes fragmented.

This is not true.  If this is happening there are bugs in the APPS
that you are running.  If you find such a bug report it to your
app vendor.  Windows has been tested very carefully to make sure
there are no internal leaks like this.

Chris Guzak