Mail Archives: djgpp/1992/06/21/02:09:40
Dear Mr. Delorie,
I would like to make a bug report, but I am not
sure what information will be most useful to you. What
happened is the following - while running a program that
I was debugging (not using debug32, just running it
with go32), the computer was engaging in incredibly long
hard disk accesses when the program reached the constructors
I was working on. I can only presume this was due to
swapping because the constructors contained no disk io
operations. Not knowing when, if ever, the disk accesses
were going to end, I was stopping them and the program
by warm-booting using control-alt-delete. Control-C wasn't
working. After doing this twice, I think, the program
terminated the third time during the disk accesses to give
an "out of swap space" error ( I don't remember the message
precisely). At this point I noticed that the last 16 or so
megabytes of free space on my hard drive had been reduced to
less than 100 Kbytes. I thought that maybe my warm boots
had left enormous swap files in the tmp directory, but
after I deleted everything in this directory I still had
less than 100 Kbytes free disk space. Later I discovered
that I can no longer boot from the hard drive. Otherwise,
everything seems fine - I can boot from floppy and then
use the hard drive as normal except for the missing megabytes.
I am using a generic 486-33 with 4 MB and
Thanks to everyone for the advice. chkdsk /F worked
wonders; I have all of my megabytes back and can boot again.
In fact, I have a lot more megabytes than before!
Thanks again!
Frederick Umminger
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