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> From: "Artur Pendzich" <apendzich AT wytnijplusnet DOT pl>
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:28:10 +0200
> 
> > I load several datafiles, create some bitmaps and then unload them from  
> > memory using unload_all. After it I load next set of datafiles and   
> > bitmaps and once again unload them.
> > After several loops I have not enought memory to load datafile and in  
> > finction  load_datafile() program freezes.
> system doesn't see freed memory but cwsdpmi should see it. So why program  
> hangs after several load-unload sequences in load_datafile function?

Probably because your use of the heap memory causes severa
fragmentation, so that free memory exists, but in small chunks.

You should consider allocating memory in large chunks and then
subdivide them yourself.

> even after reeboot go32_v2 answers : descriptors exhausted.

What OS is that?  If Windows, what version of Windows?