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From: CCMK@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Mark Kosten - Computer Centre, La Trobe Uni.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Memory problems
Message-ID: <4951@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 11 Jan 91 00:12:48 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University
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I am running version 1.20 on an IBM model 70 with 6MB memory
and with memory swapping and compaction on in config.sys.
I run a lot of stuff in the background (DECnet, TCP/IP,
clock, cpu monitor, etc, totalling 59 processes), and after
boot up have 1.2MB free (a little utility tells me this).
I run a few programs repeatedly (quitting and restarting, such
as the file manager, editor) and slowly memory gets eaten up
till there is about 20 KB left and then sometimes I get a system
shutdown with 'memory faulty' error, which I do not believe as
no tests or other programs have ever found faulty memory.

Does anyone have any ideas?  It seems some programs do not
give back memory, such as the file manager, on exiting,
plus my machine seems loathe to swap or compact segments.
Am I dreaming the whole thing, or should I just wait for 1.3,
which apparently solves a lot of memory problems?

Dr Mark Kosten,        phone: +61 3 479-2767
Computer Centre,       AARNet (internet): ccmk@lure.latrobe.edu.au
La Trobe University,   X.25 (PSI): 05052347300000::ccmk
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