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 REQUIRED DATE- OPEN          USER PRIORITY WEIGHT-  76    RANKING-  0054
 DATE RECEIVED- MAY 28, 1997  REQUEST STANDING  - REVIEW   AS OF- JUN 16, 1997
                              TYPE- MOD/IMP

 DESCRIPTION-

        As many people know, when OS/2 boots up there are actually two
        copies of the WPS started.  One is what the user actually sees
        and user.  However, the second is in memory.  The second one
        monitors the first one to see if any problems occur.  If a
        serious problem occurs, then the first WPS is shut down and the
        second one shows itself and takes over.  The problem with this
        is that both WPS take a lot of memory.  According to Theseus/2,
        both WPS can take anywhere from 4-6 Megs of memory!  If the
        second WPS wasn't started, then this would be free up a lot of
        memory and probably make the system a lot faster.  I'm not quite
        sure how to solve this.  The second WPS in memory that can stop
        and takeover the first WPS is a very powerful feature.  However,
        I've only seen it in action once on my system in the several
        years I've used OS/2.  Perhaps it would be best to offer an
        option where the user could choose whether or not to have the
        second WPS active (loaded in memory) or not.  Another solution
        would be not to have the second WPS loaded at all.  Instead, a
        little utility could be loaded into memory.  This would monitor
        the status of the WPS.  If the utility found a problem, then
        the WPS would get shut down.  Then the utility would reboot the
        WPS from the hard drive.

        ATTRIBUTES:

        LOW Value
        Desired NEXT full release

        Submitted by:

        Chris Smith
        Cleveland, TN, USA
        smit467@ibm.net

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