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Tom Harrington (tph@longhorn.uucp) wrote:
: Billy Chambless (bi...@cast.msstate.edu) wrote:

: : Another guy comes to my office and says: "I keep getting this
: : "Out of Memory Error" .... I tried delting a buncha files, but it didn't
: : seem to help much....

: I've actually used systems where that might have been a valid approach.
: This was on an old LTX analog IC test system (the model "DX/90" rings a
: bell, but I could be wrong); I think it was based on some ancient Control 
: Data hardware, but it's been a few years.  Anyway, once the hard drive 
: filled up, most common commands became disabled, giving "disk full" 
: errors.  When this happened, you couldn't do *anything* with the
: system until you removed a few files.  Including, as it happened, 
: deleting files.  So you'd get an error message saying something like 
: "Cannot delete file.  Disk full."  At which point the mind would 
: boggle briefly at what to do next.  We had two of these beasts 
: networked together somehow, and it was a good thing, too, or I 
: don't know how we'd ever have recovered from full hard drives.

What about vanilla win 3.x?  If you've got the swap as a temporary
file that is deleted upon exiting windows, then dos activity could eat
into the space used by the swap once windows is restarted, reducing
the amount of possible swap memory.  Deleting files would make the
normal amount of swap space available again to windows.