| Subject | : | Memory leaks? |
| Author | : | hausmaus |
| Date | : | 30 Dec, 2004 on 13:20 |
| I really need some help here... I'm completely lost as to what is the problem. This is a bit of a lengthy post because the problem's a little complicated... I run a BBS under OS/2 Warp 4.52 (no other fixpacks). I'm using the stock OS/2 driver for a S3 Savage 4 video card. The computer is a 850mhz Athlon Thunderbird-powered system with 256MB RAM. From Squish (the mail tosser), I keep getting this error: 30 Dec 05:50:49 SQSH ZIPing mail for 1:140/1 (1392 bytes) The memory count is always in the negative as shown here: + 30 Dec 05:50:29 SQSH Begin, Squish/386 v1.11 (mem=-1464852K - main=00020010) From what I was told, that error usually means that Squish (in this case, Squish/2-the OS/2-native version) doesn't have enough memory to run the archiver (Info-Zip's ZIP). However, oddly enough, if I use the DOS version of Squish, I have no problems whatsoever. All of this is done automatically via command line. I attempted to install Theseus to find out what's going on, but even /THAT/ refuses to work: Theseus3 error log opened at 6:04:53 on 12/30/2004. I searched for the SYSLEVEL.FPK and couldn't find a SYSLEVEL in my \OS2\INSTALL with that extension (found a bunch o' others though). It was also suggested to me that it was because I was (formerly) using a program that used EMX, so I put this line into my CONFIG.SYS: SET EMXOPT=-h256 -!0x800 I quit using that program and I'm still having problems. This is a real serious problem for me because I have to manually toss mail into the BBS and I get a lot of mail and my downlinks depend on me. Everyone else is at a loss as to why it's happening. My OS/2 install is pretty much "stock" save for a few small changes I've made in CONFIG.SYS, but I don't think it's anything that would cause this problem. On a side note: all of my programs that give me a report on how much memory I have free (all are OS/2 native) always give me numbers in the negative. Should I toggle the "OS/2 Memory over 64MB" setting in my BIOS? I was told that only affects Warp 3 systems, but I don't know... Any and all help and/or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'm really at my wit's end with this problem and I don't know where to go from here. --Sean (aka hausmaus) |
| Subject | : | Re:Memory leaks? |
| Author | : | phaelonimaire |
| Date | : | 02 Jan, 2005 on 23:18 |
| Is the system hitting the swapfile? Is there a chance the drive with the swapfile is filling up? There are loads of swap watcher apps out that you may try. I have had similar problems due to this, and defective hardware. You might also check your popuplog (if you're using it) to see if you've got a nasty app. What software are you using? What all is running during the normal (idle) BBS operation? I ran a BBS through OS/2 for years. Hopefully I can be of some help. Are you using SIO/VMODEM, or supplying direct modem connections? |
| Subject | : | Re:Memory leaks? |
| Author | : | hausmaus |
| Date | : | 03 Jan, 2005 on 04:20 |
| It got fixed using this line in config.sys: set shellhandlesinc=60 Just seems that I was just running out of handles... all fixed now. Thanks for your help though. Later, |