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- From: harryo@user1.channel1.com (Harry Flaxman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: AVAIL FLUSH stopped working!?
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 12:17:18 GMT
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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- On 17-Apr-96 08:27:21, Martin Swope wrote about AVAIL FLUSH stopped working!?,
- in comp.sys.amiga.applications :
- >Well, I saw this post about a month ago, looked at it briefly, moved on.
- >Now it's happened to me! Here's my situation:
-
- >A1200 (258 meg HD); recently acquired Blizzard 1230-IV board (no FPU). No
- >problem using AVAIL FLUSH - I could gain an additional smidgen of memory
- >with it. Today I received 16 megs of 60ns fast ram - now AVAIL and AVAIL
- >FLUSH give the same result! I run a program, close it, and AVAIL FLUSH
- >doesn't release the memory!
-
- >Can anybody tell me if there is a fix for this? Or is this the price I
- >pay for having a screamingly fast A1200? (and it is........ man! Check out
- >http://www.jncs.com for some incredible pricing on fast ram. Now I can run
- >a 256-color WB with no slowdown at all!)
-
- Maybe everything in memory (libs and all) is being used when you try the
- FLUSH? That's the only thing I can think of. You might look at what's tying
- resources up after you close the program.
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