Actually your link was to a prior posting by yourself.

Basically you are saying when the OS is almost out of memory, there is a potential problems when a memory allocation is attempted.

This is not an indication of a general level of memory manager bugs, but a very specific and narrow focus problem.

If you have discovered a problem and you are trying to lobby to get it fixed, then you need to be very specific when repeating the problem. It is totally counter-productive to claim the whole memory manager is buggy.


Subject: Re: Amt of Dynamic Memory to keep free
From: "Jan Slodicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:13:30 +0100

>
> I don't agree with either of your theories.
> 1) The memory handling is not buggy
> 2) There is no general agreement that it is 'buggy'

Well, at least a few other people seem to agree - among them very respected
names, see e.g. the thread http://escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m75735.html.

Jan Slodicka

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Stringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> >From: "Jan Slodicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >I was waiting if somebody from Palm reacts. There seems to be a general
> >agreement that the Palm OS is buggy in regards to the memory handling (my
> >own experience confirms that), people are looking for some workarounds,
> >yet - those who should know it - keep silent.
>
> I don't agree with either of your theories.
> 1) The memory handling is not buggy
> 2) There is no general agreement that it is 'buggy'
>
> But the memory system is different, and if you don't understand it, then
> you will introduce bugs into your programs.
>
> Roger Stringer

Roger Stringer Marietta Systems, Inc. (www.mariettasystems.com)


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