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Re: 2.4 Official -- memory stuff

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Jul 07, 2003
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On 6 Jul 2003, at 20:05, Mike Nelson wrote:

> 
> 
> Andy,
> 
> I believe this problem is insoluble in Eu 2.4 under Win 95/98/Me--the
> problem is that heaps do not grow beyond their initial size and you can get
> out
> of memory conditions when the heap is gone, even if you have plenty of
> physical
> RAM--the OS can't allocate it. This issue does not occur in Win NT/2000/XP
> --these can grow heaps beyond initial size.
> 
> I ran into the same problem in a VB 6.0 app on the job which dynamically
> created a few hundred controls--always overflowed the heap on Win 98 ran
> just fine on Win 2000.
> 
> By the way, per Microsoft the Win32 API has functions to dynamically grow
> heaps, but they are not implemented in the 9x series (they are defined, but
> they
> do not work), only in the NT series.

If this is true, why not replace the heap handler DLLs in win9x with those 
from 2k ?

Kat