----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:25 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows > >This is probably because you are usually using a process that is grabbing > >sufficient memory to prevent the file cache getting big enough to block > >every other process. > > You could be right. > > >File servers are the most likely machines to be afflicted with this > problem. > > But wouldn't file servers be using Windows NT or 2000 rather than Windows 98 > as their operating system? If so this appears to run counter to Rob's > comments: "In fact the bug applies to all versions of Windows other than > those in the NT class (NT 4.0 and Win2K)...." Should have clarified this as the few PC file servers that run on Win 9x (usually small business) most normal setups use NT/2000 or Unix. Any setup that scans lots of file data without any active program occupying a large area of memory is likely to run into this problem on Win 9x/me. Steve
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows LAURIE SOLOMON
- Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... Steve Greenbank
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... Lynn Allen
- Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in W... Rob Geraghty
- filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows Rick Housh
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... Tony Sleep
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... Laurie Solomon
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... Laurie Solomon
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in W... Steve Greenbank
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... Jawed Ashraf
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in W... LAURIE SOLOMON
- Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... Steve Greenbank
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... Julian Robinson
- filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memo... Rob Geraghty
- Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... Julian Robinson
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... Raphael Bustin
- RE: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windo... LAURIE SOLOMON