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From: press@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Barry Press)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows slow down after use
Keywords: slow
Message-ID: <244@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 90 17:23:33 GMT
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Reply-To: press@venice.sedd.trw.com (Barry Press)
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Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <15414@well.UUCP> berger@well.UUCP (Robert J. Berger) writes:
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>Has anyone had a problem where their windows application begins to slow down
>after extended use? The acutal painting of the windows and their data slows
>down to where you can actually see it updating the screen.

More than likely, what's happening is that memory is getting used up, and
Windows is having to page (thrash) more and more code from the disk.  You
could use one of the millions of programs to continuously display availalbe
memory to check on this, or could periodically use the About in MSDOS Exec.
If it's an application you wrote, you might then be able to use heapwalk to
see what the blocks are that are piling up.

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