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From: oivindt@ulrik.uio.no (Oivind Toien)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Disappearing memory problem
Message-ID: <OIVINDT.91Feb18184600@ulrik.uio.no>
Date: 18 Feb 91 17:46:00 GMT
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In-Reply-To: johnvann@bird.Princeton.EDU's message of 18 Feb 91 01:59:13 GMT

In article <6352@idunno.Princeton.EDU> johnvann@bird.Princeton.EDU (John Daniel Vann) writes:

>	   I am running win3 on a zenith 286 with 640K and 256 EMS 4.0
> and 4-bit VGA.  I just downloaded metz-freemem and I find that with
> some shareware, memory is allocated and then never re-appears, even
> when I exit the application.  I assume that this is an allocate/free
> memory problem within the program, but I was wondering if there is
> something I'm doing wrong or whether there is a program out there that
> can salvage memory that is not needed anymore.

I have seen a program called STATUS.EXE by Kai Uwe Rommel (on Cica I
think). It has a garbage collection procedure. But the amount of
memory indicated (596K with only program manager and a terminal
program loaded) has nothing to do with the 8 MB on my 386 system.

Does anybody out in netland know what memory this program is handling,
and if the garbage-collection works?