Re: geos w/40MB ram

Nfiedler@aol.com
Sat, 22 Feb 1997 11:54:00 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 97-02-21 23:16:36 EST, edwdig@bergen.org (Edward Di
Geronimo Jr.) writes:
> Hiya guys,
>
> I don't think this is really the right place for this question, but, I
just
> popped 32 megs of ram into my computer to bring it up to 40, and, well,
> Ensemble crashes after drawing the background. It works when run from
> Windows. After telling Smartdrv to make an 8 meg disk cache, it worked. Is
> there any other way I can get it to work?

This is NOT a sign of bad memory. GEOS cannot run on more than 32MB of RAM.
The memory allocation system cannot deal with more than 32MB because it
allocates a table to keep track of the memory. If the memory is too large the
table will wrap around on itself and die. I believe there is a fix to this in
the NewDeal version of GEOS, but don't quote me on that.

The solution is to run GEOS under Windows where you can specify the amount
of memory to let GEOS think it has (set it to 4 or 8MB, won't need more than
that).

Nathan