[softwarelist] Re: OvationPro and memory allocation

  • From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:40:22 +0100

In message of 13 Jul, Paul Vigay <lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <4e45c294d2chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Chris Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Could you amplify this a little. I have tried, and I see no flicker
> > in either the Ovation Pro application task slot, or in the Ovation
> > Pro dynamic area memory. This is both with a single document loaded,
> > and several documents loaded. The application slot does sometimes
> > increase by a 4K unit when a page reformat is caused by typing into
> > the middle of the document, which has embedded pictures, but no
> > flickering.
> 
> Using OvationPro v2.77 on a 512MB Iyonix with ROS 5.11, open a new
> OvPro document. 
> 
> Open 'Tasks' window.
> 
> Just type random gobbledegook into OvPro default page. The
> 'OvationPro' application space constantly flickers by claiming and
> releasing an extra 4K.
> 
> Does it all the time here, so should be easily reproducible.

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.

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