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- From: jlavin@teleport.com (Jeff Lavin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AVAIL FLUSH stopped working!?
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 23:57:20 -0700
- Organization: The Puzzle Factory, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4l4p4g$d2d@linda.teleport.com>
- References: <4l2a19$5fm@tribune.concentric.net>
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- In article <4l2a19$5fm@tribune.concentric.net>,
- Martin Swope <Mswope@cris.com> wrote:
- >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!
- >
- >Martin Swope
-
- Avail FLUSH only asks for up to 8 megs of memory. I really have no idea
- why they chose to write it that way. You must use something else.
- Basically, anything that will try to allocate more memory than is
- available will cause a system memory panic and release resources that are
- not in use.
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