Several Problems (memory Leak?, Many Jpgs To View? Options

[klausph]

hi

I have several problems with pmview.
maybe they depend from my hardware, maybe they depend from my network:

graphikcard: matrox mga-g550 (snap 446)
network: mainly os2, big library of graphicfiles resides on a linux(samba-newest version)-server(suse9.3), some lvd-scsi-200GB's.
to connect with network, I'm using newest NDFS32 with newest samba_plugin.
os2-pmview 3.12 (german)

in last weeks(months) there happens very often:

1. working with pmview, loading more than 1000 jpg's in file browser, who views only thumbnails, he's very slow.

2. sometimes happens, that pmview get all available free memory (=600MB) (my os2 starts with approx 800MB ram), and there is no free mem, it's like zero.

3. I must work with many thumbs. in folders there are more than 1000 thumbs. to work with them, means: copy/remove to other folders.
If I remove to another folder approx 2000 thumbs, it works.
If I repeat to work with another hundreds of thumbs, it will sometimes answer: abort,retry,ignore. (titel: to remove file from hiere to there)
sometimes at the beginning I can RETRY. later there's only possible: abort.
It helps: to restart whole computer! nothing else!
at this times, sometimes mouse_actions doesn't work IN pmview.

whats wrong with my computer?
or with pmview?
could it be question of some dll-lib-files?

its a very certain question for me. I must do go on with my work with pmview.... ;-)


thanks a lot for Your help,
yours
klaus

[Peter]

This sounds like the common OS2.INI problem.

Do you regularily clean your OS2.INI with IniMaint/UniMaint? The OS/2 Workplace Shell has a bug/problem that manifests itself in a lot of "dead" handles left behind in OS2.INI. The file just grows and grows and eventually you start to experience problems.

If you've never cleaned your OS2.INI, that will very likely solve your problem.

You can work around the problem by telling PMView NOT to use the WPS: Make sure that the "Use Workplace Shell APIs for copy/move/delete" option on the "Special" page in PMView's options notebook is disabled. I strongly recommend disabling this option if working with thousands of files.

Also, I've heard that the OS/2 Samba driver has some problems (especially with Extended Attributes). If you work on a Samba drive, that may well be the cause of the problems...