Subj : Weird problems with Squish
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Mon Dec 27 2004 09:18 pm

Hi Sean,

Well I can't really comment too much other than what you probaby already 
know... 

 SD> + 27 Dec 00:20:38 SQSH Begin, Squish/386 v1.11 

BTW, WHICH executable are you using SQ386 or Squish/2? BOTH list as /386 in the 
log and that can makes things confusing.


 SD> + 27 Dec 00:20:38 SQSH Begin, Squish/386 v1.11 (mem=-

This says that Squish is running out of memory... in a big way (a negative 
quantity???). Something else on your system is doing this, so its probably not 
a Squish issue. One thing with Squish/386, I found that using "Buffers Medium" 
resulted in errors, so I have only been using Squish/2 and "Buffers Large" 
since very early on in Squish 1.11 days. This was even a Scott Dudley 
recommendation, given the known issues with the /386 specific environment...

 SD> ! 27 Dec 00:21:05 SQSH Archiver error: Can't run archiver (-1)

Its unable to get the memory it needs to run, so it confirms the above 
situation)...

 SD> -If I do this using GoldEd+/EMX at the command prompt 
 SD> (using a batch file), this error occurs.

Are you using the EMX handles bug fix?  Namely the line in config.sys -

   SET EMXOPT=-h256 -!0x800

EMX is not perfect, it does have issues at times, I have moved away from using 
EMX wherever possible because of these memory usage issues I keep seeing. 
The worst one was BinkD/2, the EMX version would run for between 22 - 72 hours 
before refusing to run BinkD again until a reboot. I now use the non-EMX 
version of BinkD/2 and it runs for months at a time...

 SD> I am wondering if there's a problem with OS/2 running 
 SD> out of handles)

Its more like EMX consuming the handles and not releasing them to me.

I hope this helps................pk.
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