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Here is what noted writer and computer guru Fred Langa has to say about resources and ram.
1) Resource Leaks, Part III
In Part One of this series ( winmag.com ), we discussed the how and why of "resource leaks;" what they are, the problems they can cause, and how you can determine if your system is suffering from them: To refresh your memory, resource leaks typically involve two special, fixed-size, internal scratchpad areas of Windows memory; their size is unchangeable, and not related at all to how much RAM your system has. In poorly coded apps, some of this limited, special memory may be used by an app but not released when the app closes---or crashes. Over time, more and more of these limited resources may be marked as "in use" even when they're really not. Eventually, there's not enough space available to continue, and you get an "out of memory" error message (even if you have tons of RAM), or a crash. |
