Who else has done something this stupid?

[FlamingPanther]

I forgot to uncheck winamps "allow multiple instances" check box,
added 1667 mp3s,
started 1667 F###ing winamps.

[homer]
DOH!
[/homer]

I have 512megs of ram and had 400Megs free at the time.
each winamp takes 200K for the player and however much cache it is set for (when playing an mp3 that

is) with the max cache size being the size of the mp3 file itself.

so he must figure that : 200K * 1667 = 334Megabytes.
now, think that each winamp was set for play upon startup.
so, 75megs RAM left free
Lets figure that each mp3 is about 4.25-4.33 megs in size.
thus 75 / 4.25 = 17.64
so that means that the first
17 Winamps were able to play they random selected songs.
the remaining 1650 tried to play, and in such forced the least used programs at the time to be

swaped out to the page file,
the least used programs being those first 17 winamps.
so, there for we have 8 Gigs of mp3s rather quickly (as fast as my computer can)
pretty much being duplicated from the HDD to memory then to the page file on another logical drive.

Now, I have dual 100Gig Western Digital 1000BBSE drives In a RAID 0 array.
my C: drive is partitioned to be 8Gigs. therefore In about 2 minutes, before I could grasp what was

happening, my swap file was completely filled and I ran out of space and My PC crashed.
When I booted back up, there being NO free space whatsoever windows 2000 would NOT BOOT.
I Am very lucky that my C: drive is the only drive in my system that is still FAT32.
Because I could boot with a Windows 98 SuperBoot disk and delete the swapfile.
Windows 2000 automatically created a new swapfile on the next bootup.

Blech.

FP

 

[b0mbrman]

<< I forgot to uncheck winamps "allow multiple instances" check box,
added 1667 mp3s,
started 1667 F###ing winamps. >>


Yikes!

 

[5489]

how long did it take you to figure that out?

in the time it took you to do that, i would have just pressed the reset button

 

[fr]

I've done it a few times. Selected a whole bunch of files....was about to do shift+del, enter. I pressed the combo quickly and I didn't press the delete key hard enough.

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

I wonder what some people use multiple instances for? The only thing I use it for is when I am writing plug-ins. One instance of winamp to debug my plug-in, another instance for listening to music. Other that that IMHO, its worthless...

 

[MaxDSP]

<< I wonder what some people use multiple instances for? The only thing I use it for is when I am writing plug-ins. One instance of winamp to debug my plug-in, another instance for listening to music. Other that that IMHO, its worthless... >>



i used it to test out songs "mixability"

 

[FlamingPanther]

to 5489:
therefore In about 2 minutes

I'm running 2000 with no extra crap programs installed and all unnessecary services disabled.
I haven't had a crash in a year that was not hardware related.

So I tried to get my computer to respond before hitting the big button because I was in the middle of downloading several music videos.
But when I looked in the task manager, and there where 1700 entries, I realized what had happend instantly.
I did not want to lose my downloads though.
So I waited for my mpegs to finished downloading while I closed the winamps as fast as I could.
then I hit the magic button.

 

[FlamingPanther]

Yeah, I was mixing some Metallica and Snoop Dogg before and forgot to change the check box back.
I was trying to make a playlist of songs I thought a friend might want.

The list is Here

 

[Eli]

<< Yeah, I was mixing some Metallica and Snoop Dogg before and forgot to change the check box back. >>

:Q

 

[yakko]

I want to say haha but then again I don't.