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From: coxs@itsgw.rpi.edu (Sean Cox)
Subject: Re: Out of resource in Windows 3?
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Date: 29 Apr 91 23:42:46 GMT
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indra@brahms.amd.com (Indra Singhal) writes:
>Well, as I type this I am on the phone with Windows tech support and
>they are putting me on and off hold trying to figure this out... So I go
>to the better support source: The Net!!

>With 12Meg Ram and 4Mb Cache, 2Mb Ram disk 16Mb permanent swap, with a
>dozen windows including 3-4 hDC microapps I run 'out of memory or other
>windows resource'. Even though hDC memory viewer shows I have 11Mb or
>memory available (must include swap)...

       I seem to recall (i.e. I read it >somewhere<) that the windows 
 "resources available" is simply an indication of how much space is 
 available on teh 2 application stacks (each a 64k segment for obvious :(
 reasons).  What's probably happeneing is that your applications are taking
 up most of the available space on these stacks and windows won't run 
 anything else because it thinks you're machine is "full."
       Gotta love backwards compatibility. :)

                                                    -Sean
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