AFAIK the memory usage in the tack/process manager
is a (extremely) vague guideline and not that close
to real memory usage. Everything I have used to check
real memory usage has always reported wildly different
amounts to what the windows task manager has reported.
Nic Wise wrote:
> AFAIK its a windows thing - windows minimizes its working set when you
> minimize the app, 'cos you are not interacting with it, so it doesn't have
> to care about things like back buffers, keyboard interaction etc. JBuilder
> and Delphi are the same. On an initial boot with about 15 files open, its
> using 32/33 (real/virtual). If I minimize it, it goes down to about 10/33.
> Bring it back up and its up to about 14/33. Odd :) I guess Window releases a
> lot of the internal stuff then - which is rather a handy thing to know.
>
> N
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> Subject: [DUG]: What MIGHT be going on
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>> Hi all.
>>
>> Last week 1/2 I have been writting a mail server for work.
>> Its al working fine etc, but I have observed something that puzzles me.
>>
>> If I goto the task manager, then to the processes tab, I can locat my exe
>
> in the list.
>
>> It runs, when open at roughly 4500K, which is fine.(mainly due to me using
>
> tree views I think)
>
>> If I now minimize it, it drops to 660k (roughly)
>>
>> Now, when I send an email to it, it raises to 1808k...ok its processing.
>
> But it does not drop back to around the 660k mark again.
>
>> Just before teh for is minimizes, I send a message to all the controls to
>
> not paint then (WM_SETREDRAW), i.e. this shoul stop the treeviews drawing
> any data etc. but it made no differenct.
>
>> if I restor the form, then minimize it again, it drops back to 660k.
>> Can anyone think WHY this would be happening ??
>>
>> Cheers, Jeremy Coulter
>>
>>
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