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

[klausph]

hi peter

ok, ok. maybe, there are probs with "samba-filesystem".

but last but not least: I have memory leaks!
working with pmview. all other porgramms get lost. after ending with pmview.
pmmail doesn't want to work. firefox also. and some other programs.
I have to restart all machine.
THIS doesnt have basics in samba, or?


does there exist one tool, which with I can define those obscure(?) memleaks?



yours
klaus

[Peter]

There are no known memory leaks in PMView. Also, if the memory is still gone when exiting PMView, you can be sure that the leak is not in PMView.

An OS/2 APPLICATION cannot, I repeat CANNOT, leak memory. It can hog memory, but all memory is instantly released when the application quits. (This is a feature of OS/2 - OS/2 will reclaim all memory when an application quits. There is no way for an application to keep the memory unless it installs low-level drivers to do this "dirty work". Low level driver like this need to reside in system loaded DLLs. PMView v3.10 does not have anything like that since the riddance of the DMDeamon that is no longer needed since v3,10).

Memory leaking components are generally system compnents (e.g. drivers) that stay loaded. Display drivers, file system drivers, etc. are such candidates...

Thanks,

[klausph]

hi peter
thanks für your answer,

I have tested several times in last days:

-with normal mouse (basic_device:os2)
=same errors

-NOT on samba_drives. only on two different harddisks ON my system: both jfs
=same errors

"errors" means:

a. "can't do this"[somethink like this]: abort,retry,ignore
its only possible: to abort.

b. after this, and closing pmview:
it's unpossible to start a java_app ("can't find java*.dll") or other app's, they need dll's.
explanation FOR ME: it seams, var: libpath is destroyed by pmview?. only possible: reboot.

I have asked several times for tools, which them I can have a closer look on this malfunctions. doesn't anybody here know so a like tool? and how to use?

thanks a lot!
yours
klaus

An OS/2 APPLICATION cannot, I repeat CANNOT, leak memory. It can hog ...memory, but all memory is instantly released when the application quits. (This
Memory leaking components are generally system compnents (e.g. drivers) that stay loaded. Display drivers, file system drivers, etc. are such candidates...