Re: Help Proterm using 4452k in memory...why?

[shack@pro-ict.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:

>In <CD68A0.Mz8@umassd.edu> cadams@cis.umassd.edu (Christopher Adams) writes:
>
>>I have a major problem with proterm 3.0
>>it is using more memory than it should..
>>it is using over 42000k leaving me with less than 100k
>
>	So what?  Are you running more than one program at a time
>or something?  Proterm takes that extra memory, whatever it can
>legally grab actually, and uses it as scrollback buffer.  If this
>is a problem, you have to make sure your other programs use the
>memory manager to properly allocate memory before launching Proterm.
>It is an 8-bit application, and hence isn't *that* smart in memory.

Or just get updated to 3.1 which lets you set the amount memory to be used
for scrollback.
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