Re: Hanging operating system issue

From: Dean Ramsier (ramsiernospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:54:54 -0500

You might want to consider using a tool such as the ones from Entrek. That
will show you all kinds of memory problems. 

-- 
Dean Ramsier - eMVP
"Prakash" <p.gnanaprakash@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1109333997.116845.176430@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
> I have developed graphical editor applications in Windows CE.net. I
> have used the target board as ARM processor. I have built the OS from
> platform builder 4.2 for both device and emulator version. I have
> configured the OS memory as 64 MB. While running the application on
> either device or emulator, the deivce or emulator will hangs after a
> certain period of time (sometimes hangs occur on 5mins or 10 mins, or
> 15 mins). we are not able to trace the exact postion where the hang
> occurs. We have performed source level debugging also. We have
> confirmed that all function calls are successful by providing the
> logging facility on the source code. At last we have debug the
> application through the platform builder. While running the application
> we got the CMemoryException message. But in the storage manager it
> says, it only uses 70% of the memory.
>
> Some peoples told that, this is because of low virtual memory on
> Windows CE.net. As per the MSDN documentation on Windows CE.net, the
> virtual memory for the each process is only 32 MB and the OS has 33
> slots of 32MB virtual memory.
>
> Our doubt is whether we can use the other slot of virtual memory for
> our current process ? or
> This issue is only depend on memory ? or
> Is there any other way to handling this issue ?
>

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