Quoting Andrew Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I originally sent this off topic but it didn't get posted for some =
> reason (is the off topic list working ?), so....
>
> My development pc runs out of system resources (and eventually hangs) =
> when I have my project open with D3 and then run it from within D3. I =
> tend to have a lot of units open concurrently. It has got progressively =
> worse as my project has grown so I assumed my pitiful 32MB RAM was a =
> factor and so bumped it up to 80MB (all installed OK etc). This had no =
> effect on my system resources ?? What "resource" am I running out of ?? =
> Anyone have similiar problems ? ideas ?
>
> FYI, using D3, Win95. Issues like swap file space are OK.
Windows allocates resources from fixed size heaps irrespective of the installed
RAM amount in a system. Windows 95 improved this situation considerably over
3.1 (to the extent that the FreeSystemResources call was deleted from the API
as it was supposed to be "unnecessary) but it is still possible to run out of
resources (as the Resource Meter will show) with several resource intensive
applications open.
I find from experience that with Gravity, Outlook, Outlook Express and one or
two other programs open, if I want to start Delphi then I have to close Outlook
in order to keep the resource meter in the yellow or green range.
The amount of installed RAM has no direct bearing on resource allocation.
Provided you have enough free disk space for the swap file, Windows can
allocate memory to applications "ad infinitum" as RAM is swapped in and out
from disk. The advantage of more memory is a reduced amount of disk swapping
(and thus faster speed) when some memory intensive task (e.g. graphics editing)
needs the RAM. It will not have an effect on resources.
Windows NT provides a much greater level of resource allocation than Windows
95, so upgrading to NT is one possible solution to your problem.
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