[softwarelist] Re: OvationPro and memory allocation

On 13 Jul 2006  Paul Vigay <lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <e79cc4454e.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Not here it doesn't but then I seem to remember that your machine is
>> almost one of those that is running one of Sinclair's power stations;
>> mine is lightly loaded.
> 
> That's odd. It does it here, even with nothing else loaded (ie. clean boot)

But not here; 5.11 with lazy task swapping on.

> Are you sure it's not just flickering too fast you don't notice it. If you
> repeated press keys on the keyboard, you should see it flickering quite a
> bit.
> 
> I'm sure this is perhaps causing a problem with Lazy Task Swapping, which
> invariably results in a line of random pixels appearing on the backdrop
> after approx 15-20 minutes of OvPro loaded, followed soon after by
> applications randomly crashing (until you turn off Lasy Task Swapping or
> reboot the machine).

Never seen that here. Perhaps everyone needs to submit lists of what 
else is running?

With best wishes,

Peter.

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