Low resource errors

[sputnic]

Hi, I have a fairly large program, I started writing it before I understood how to seperate it into smaller chunks, anyway, I try to run it in debug mode by pressing the play key and it may run once, then when I do it again after adjusting the program to fix something it gives me the blue screen of death, when I hit a key it comes back and starts to tell me that I am low on resources, then I have to re-boot. I have 156megs of ram, does anyone know if there is a limit on size or windows???
thanx

 

[zBuilder]

There are lots of reason why Windows can run out of resources even if your RAM approaches infinity.

Failing to release a handle to a device context more than 6 times (It may be more in newer Windows versions) Calling GetDC(hwnd) 6 times without calling ReleaseDC is an example of this....

Windows has a limited number of global memory handles (I think it is 4096) Allocate a bunch of small memory blocks and you'll run outa handles before RAM...

etc...




Kim_Christensen@telus.net

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[2ffat]

Some other things to look at is your virtual memory. A lot of OS's swaps memory to your hard drive. In Windows, if your virtual memory is too small, it can't handle it.

Also, you didn't mention how you are compiling (DOS, Windows, Console, etc) your program. You may want to look at some of your compiler options.
James P. Cottingham

http://www.ivcusa.com