like jfw eats ram like there is enough for the whole world!! what a rip off!! jfw has caused an error in JHOOK.dll. jfw will now close..... ********************************************************************** Date 10/02/2002 Time 12:35 JFW caused an invalid page fault in module WINMM.DLL at 0197:bfdd3538. Registers: EAX=00000003 CS=0197 EIP=bfdd3538 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=8303b08c SS=019f ESP=02dcff20 EBP=02dcff6c ECX=023ba000 DS=019f ESI=bfdd3529 FS=1c6f EDX=82f3d5a8 ES=019f EDI=c1b49430 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 89 41 10 ff 72 0c 68 bd 03 00 00 ff 72 58 e8 42 Stack dump: 00000000 bff754f2 82f3d5a8 c1b49430 000000c0 8303b08c 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000001 81d469fc 00000001 e6a6d8b4 bff641cf 02dcfd50 02dcffbc ********** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 6:00 PM Subject: Re: Getting rid of Linux > I've had pretty good luck with Parted except for one time when I ran it > off the Slackware Live CD that comes with the boxed version of Slackware > 8.1. The problem was that since the Live CD uses a RAM disk for the root > filesystem and I only have 32MB of RAM, it ran out of memory while > resizing a partition. When you run out of memory in Linux, the kernel > kills the offending program. The result was that Parted got killed in the > middle of resizing. Needless to say, I had to restore that partition from > backup as well as my entire Slackware system. The moral of the story is > that if you are short on memory, either don't use Parted from a floppy, or > find some free hard drive space to use as swap. Actually, this seems to > hold true for any disk intensive operations as those seem to be the ones > that eat memory. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >