Digital BW, The Print

NT suffers from OS memory leaks and a some point you will either crash 
or have to reboot. In order to cut cost on a large signal processing we 
were task to rehost the S/W from Sun's to an Intel platform. One time 
software cost would very quickly be paid for considering the number of 
units. In order to maintain compatability (and support upgrades) the 
kernel siganl processing code was just recomplied. There were no leaks 
in the applications on the Suns nor the Alpha  both running their 
versions of Unix. About 1000 different people are beating on this code 
daily and it also runs in real time 24/7 operational systems and is very 
stable.

The S/W engineers could never get it work properly under any Windows 
verson and the decision was eventualy made to go to Linux. Works fine. 
The windows memory management still has a ways to go. There was some 
desire to relook at the Windows environment but the decision was made to 
simply load the windows emulator on the Linux box if someone just had to 
run word or excel. That works fine to.

Truman


Editor P.O.V. Image Service wrote:

>Truman Prevatt wrote:
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>>This is probably more of a computer problem than a PS problem. Myself 
>>I've never understood why photoshop takes so long - I suspect it is a 
>>dinosaur that needs to be completely rewritten which will probably never 
>>happen.
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>>What I think you probably saw was an OS problem. Windows after it has 
>>been up for a long period of time - especially if you have run 
>>applications that require a lot of memory - will get corrupted and many 
>>things will not be done correctly. Windows memory management is not very 
>>good. A reboot will solve the problem.
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>That's generally a problem only with versions of Windoze built on the 
>Win9X Kernel.. Win NT and its successors generally do not have this 
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>It's called a "memory leak" and is a real pain in the butt with any 
>Win9x or WinME installation.
>Keith
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