johnvann@bird.Princeton.EDU (John Daniel Vann) (02/18/91)
I am running win3 on a zenith 286 with 640K and 256 EMS 4.0 and 4-bit VGA. I just downloaded metz-freemem and I find that with some shareware, memory is allocated and then never re-appears, even when I exit the application. I assume that this is an allocate/free memory problem within the program, but I was wondering if there is something I'm doing wrong or whether there is a program out there that can salvage memory that is not needed anymore. Thanks for all responses. -- John Vann (johnvann@phoenix.princeton.edu)
oivindt@ulrik.uio.no (Oivind Toien) (02/19/91)
In article <6352@idunno.Princeton.EDU> johnvann@bird.Princeton.EDU (John Daniel Vann) writes: > I am running win3 on a zenith 286 with 640K and 256 EMS 4.0 > and 4-bit VGA. I just downloaded metz-freemem and I find that with > some shareware, memory is allocated and then never re-appears, even > when I exit the application. I assume that this is an allocate/free > memory problem within the program, but I was wondering if there is > something I'm doing wrong or whether there is a program out there that > can salvage memory that is not needed anymore. I have seen a program called STATUS.EXE by Kai Uwe Rommel (on Cica I think). It has a garbage collection procedure. But the amount of memory indicated (596K with only program manager and a terminal program loaded) has nothing to do with the 8 MB on my 386 system. Does anybody out in netland know what memory this program is handling, and if the garbage-collection works?