Subj : Re: Windows issues
To   : Grymmjack
From : Tracker1
Date : Mon Jun 20 2005 07:58 am

Grymmjack wrote:
> in nt/2k/xp that's a thing of the past thank god, but there are still things 
> going on that i can think of just looking at the way it works that could 
> still be true. like you mention the fact that after closing you never get
> back what you used. i haven't run into this but i haven't kept an eye on it 
> really. when i open photoshop, resources indicate for example, that i am 
> using about 400mB of ram (i dedicate lots to photoshop) all told, when i 
> close it i recover the 384mB photoshop claims to use (according to my math 
> and the percentage of ram allocation slider in preferences).

I'm guessing the process is still running in the background, netscape < 4.08 
for instance was notorious for doing that under nt4 (hadn't tried since before 
2k came out)..  Other programs do/have done the same, sometimes thunderbird 
does this.  Can generally kill it in task manager (give it a minute though).

The *bad* thing about the netscape4.x problem vs. the tbird issue, is nn4 
would creep up the memory, like it was stuck in an allocation loop, after 
about 20 min, the machine would crawl, as nn was taking up all the ram... 
tbird just doesn't always close out right... this last version seems buggy as 
sin though... :(

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