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RE: [ECS] Bug in ECSW - System resources eaten up Mark Sekelsky Sun, 23 Aug 1998 19:01:07 -0500

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I am not having a resource problem either.  There was a memory leak problem
related to kernel32.dll (I think that is the file).

Mark S

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael David [mailto:michaeld@michaeldavid.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 1998 6:26 PM
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
Subject: RE: [ECS] Bug in ECSW - System resources eaten up


Hi Troy!

Sorry to hear you are having problems.  My system doesn't have that problem
that you have described.  However, I do have a weird memory thing with MS
Speech SDK 4.0 where the free memory continually decrements down to
somewhere between 300 and 600K then jumps back up to 2meg and starts all
over again.

Regardless, I never seem to run out of resources.  It's been several days
since I have rebooted, and my available resources are as follows:
System Resources: 77%
User Resources: 77%
GDI Resources: 94%

Could there be some other program you are using that is causing problems?
What version of Windows95 are you running?  I vaguely seem to remember some
sort of memory leak problem with TCP/IP I think, that was fixed with one of
the updates.

Anybody else have any ideas?

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com


-----Original Message-----
From:	Troy Carpenter [mailto:troy.carpenter@arris-i.com]
Sent:	Sunday, August 23, 1998 6:19 PM
To:	'ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org'
Subject:	[ECS] Bug in ECSW - System resources eaten up

Hi all,

I sent this report to Mark on Saturday, but since my problem is major, I
thought I would send it to the entire list and see if anyone else has
noticed
it.

I installed ECS-lite 2 days ago and have noticed a few problems with the
windows version, but they all may be related on one root cause.  I had
installed 3.4.021, but am now using 3.4.024.  I noticed this problem in both
versions.

The main problem I have found is that ECS eventually chews up all the system
and GDI resources.  I first found this with First Aid warning me of low
resources.  Using the resource meter in W95, I determined when the resources
are getting eaten.

The easiest way do to it is to edit an event, accept and save.  Then start
switching between the group, events, items, and message screens
continuously.
 You should see your resources start to take a nose dive, eventually going
to
zero.   Later experiments show the resources being eaten just by switching
between the different screens, as well as the different entries in the
different areas.  It may also happen during event processing since the
resources slowly decline even when no input is given to the program.  If I
quit
ECS, the resources return to their original levels.

Now, the other problems I have may be related...Sometimes the whole computer
reboots out of the blue when I do something in ECS.  It is may be because
the
resources have gone to zero.  Other times ECS just dies.  I don't mean
freezing, I mean the windows disappear.  System seems stable, though.  And
finally, something (don't know what) causes ECS to go into a continuous
redraw
cycle and "ding" the system default sound.  There is no way to get out of
ECS
once this happens.  Pressing "ESC" stops it, but displays many error boxes
that
say "Error SC" or something like that.

Anyway, the pressing issue seems to be the System resources.  I just tried
it
again and my resources are down to 38% from 65% when I started.

Let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks

Troy Carpenter
troy.carpenter@arris-i.com

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