Well, I'd believe the memory problem before anything else. This particular script is quite hungry and eats up a whopping 22MB+. Heck, that's even more than Outlook! Thanks for the food for thought.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Piske, Harald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:32 PM > To: 'perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net' > Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Minimized GUI windows fall asleep > > > Never had that at all, and I love to keep my taskbar stuffed > with around 15 > open apps, 10 of which are min'd while I deal with 3 of the > other 5. Even on > mon mornings, after around 64 hrs of win-dozing, they come up > normally ... > that is, as painfully slow as is usual for this OS ;-) > > There must be something in your water. Does it only affect > your Win32::GUI > wins? Then you should check their ... erm ... sleep cycle by > i.e. having a > timer sub that changes the caption. That way, you can see right in the > taskbar button of your app, if it still breathes. > > One other suspicion: you're short of RAM and have something > running with a > memory leak. I have an app with no leak, but reeeeeeally > memory hungry. Once > that thing is up, it surges all available real memory and > when I reactivate > one of the other windows, it takes like until next tuesday > before they have > swapped themselves out of virtual and into real memory. One > other prog, that > does have a leak, slowly gobbles all RAM until everything > else stalls. If, > at that point, I close it, it looks frozen, but actually > needs about 20% > *more* RAM to shut down - I suspect a side effect of the > garbage collection, > trying to free the leaked resources and having to build a > hash or something > like that. After a couple of minutes, it really closes and > everything is > back to normal. > > If on NT or 2k, keep the task manager open and watch, which > app or process > burns the CPU power and RAM. If on 9x, the task scheduler > worx differently > there and you can have one malfunctioning app freezing all > others, given a > few conditions. > > One last idea: when did you last check for viruses? > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: Peter Eisengrein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 8:30 > | To: Perl GUI Mail list (E-mail) > | Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Minimized GUI windows fall asleep > | > | > | Anyone had a problem with a Window that "falls asleep" if > it has been > | minimized for a while. I have this problem and it takes quite > | a while (> 10 > | minutes sometimes) for the system to return it when it is > | restored. This is > | especially prevalent in Win98 but have also seen it on NT4.0. > | > | Is there a fix other than "don't minimize the window"? > | > | _______________________________________________ > | Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list > | Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net > | http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users > | > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list > Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users >
