[Gsview] Jump in the the Page File Usage in Win XP

Russell Lang gsview at ghostgum.com.au
Sat Aug 7 02:28:46 PDT 2004


Rio,

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>  style="color: black;">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  style="color: black;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I am not new to using GSview on windows &#8211; but I am new to installing it on my own computer (Win XP).<o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  style="color: black;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I downloaded <o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  style="color: black;">From <a
>  href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/gsview/get46.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get46.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  style="color: black;">the file gsv46w32.exe<o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  style="color: black;">And <o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  style="color: black;">From <a
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>  style="color: black;">the file gs814w32.exe<o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  style="color: black;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I then installed both of these &#8211; and I think that I have managed to get GSView to work &#8211; however there is a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  style="color: black;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>When I look at the Page File Usage I see a big jump when even I try to open the smallest ps file. My normal Page File Usage is about 180 &#8211; 215 MB. However when I try to open any ps file this jumps up to about 623 MB (probably near the upper limit of my machine.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  style="color: black;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Just starting GSView &#8211; without opening any files just increases the Page File Usage by about 2 &#8211; 3 MB &#8211; which is OK. However even the smallest file makes this value about 623 MB.<o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  style="color: black;">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
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>  class="HTMLTypewriter2"><span style="color: black;">Rio</span></span></st1:place><span
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On opening GSview, I see it uses about 3Mbytes.
On opening a PS file within GSview (thus causing the opening of 
Ghostscript), I see it jump to about 10Mbytes.

The only reason I can think of it jumping to 600Mbytes is because the 
GSview display resolution is set to a large value such as 1200dpi.  
Try setting this back to a reasonable value such as 96dpi.

Your email program produces some ghastly output.  It doesn't include 
a plain text version, and the HTML version is such that lines don't 
wrap, making it difficult to read.




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