Re: how to increase the maximum number of windows ?
From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/04/04
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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 23:35:35 +1000
So increase your swap file.
-- ---------------------------------------------------------- 'Not happy John! Defending our democracy', http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/29/1088392635123.html "The PocketTV Team" <do-not-reply-by-email@pockettv.com> wrote in message news:OrkizaieEHA.1732@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > > Why would you think memory isn't an issue. > > because when XP refuses to let me open more windows, I have still plenty or > RAM available, and my system does not swap. > > so i'm sure the limit they put on the maximum number of windows is due to > some internal table of the kernel that has a hard-coded size, and that it is > not caused by any memory limitation on my system. > > i also have a linux system and on this one i can open i may windows as i > want, and run as many processes as i want, until i start running out of > memory and swapping. so i know what happens when you reach the real limit > of a system. there is no hard-coded limit. > > > "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message > news:eLS5e4heEHA.3124@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > Why would you think memory isn't an issue. > XP has about 20 processes with nothing happening. Add 100 more give 120 > processes. Each process can access 4 GBytes of memory (though 2 GB is > shared). So 120 x 2 GByte = 240 Gigabyte, yet you have only half a gigabyte > of memory. So you need a swap file 239.5 gigabyte. > > While a program may not use all of its 2 GByte it expects it to be available > if it wants it. That's why operating systems need lots of free disk space so > the swap can grow to the size needed. > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > 'Not happy John! Defending our democracy', > http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/29/1088392635123.html > > "The PocketTV Team" <do-not-reply-by-email@pockettv.com> wrote in message > news:e$GSbCbeEHA.2544@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > > my XP desktop seems to limit the maximum number of top-level windows to > > about 50 or so. > > > > when the limit is reach, the system refuses to open new windows. > > > > because of the nature of my job, i need to keep about 100 windows opened > > (most of them minimized), to have rapid access to a number of documents. > > > > is there a way to increase the maximum number of windows with XP ? > > > > my XP system has 512K+ memory, 100GB hard disk, so memory resources are > not > > an issue. apparently there is a limit that is either hard-coded in the XP > > kernel, shell or maybe something that can be tuned up (from the registry). > > > > i have used google to search for an answer to that one, and all i found > were > > many people who had the same question, but no answer. > > > > > >
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