What Linda is describing is known as a "memory leak".
In very simple terms this means that:
When a program loads into Windows, it tells windows
that it needs xxxx amount of RAM for it's own use.
Windows then obliges by blocking out or reserving
the requested amount of memory.
The problem occurs when the program shuts down
and it "forgets" to tell windows it no longer needs that
RAM, so.... windows still has it reserved. Now if you
reload that application it will, once again, request
RAM from Windows. So windows, once more,
reserves another/different chunk of RAM ----
and keeps the first chunk reserved also.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Pulliam" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Netscape Problem
> Yes: possibly she has had her computer turned on for a long space
> of time. I can't explain it intelligibly, but I know that RAM
> memory gets "used up" the longer one is using the computer. When I
> have signed on the internet multiple times after rebooting,
> surfing slows considerably, even stopping, and Netscape links
> don't even operate. Then, I reboot and everything is fine. I have
> heard that Netscape may be extra demanding on memory, but I don't
> know that for sure.
>
> Amado Pino wrote:
> >
> > Hi listers;
> >
> > I have a friend that's having a problem while trying to open a link from
> > Messenger, she claims it just sits there and Communicator won't open.
> > Netscape is her default browser, she's running Win 95 on a pentium 200
> > mhz, 64mb-ram. Any ideas? TIA.
> >
> > Amado
> >
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