strange behaviour when writing a large amount of data on stdout

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Bengt Richter wrote:
> If windows has been running a long time (a few days or a week may be long ;-) it
> may get fragmented in some smallish memory arena reserved for special things (I forgot
> what versions, but I wouldn't be surprised if something still had s specialized limit).
>
I know it is a tease and not serious but I run my XP for weeks without
rebooting without any problem, just using the sleep/suspend/resume. So
it really is myth that Windows cannot be running long with reboot.