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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: avail flush no longer does
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- References: <oj6u426px3s.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>
- From: ehb@draco.prima.ruhr.de (Edwin H. Bielawski)
- Message-ID: <ehb.00h1@draco.prima.ruhr.de>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 96 09:27:54 +0100
- Organization: private UUCP site Dortmund Scharnhorst (Germany), member of Prima e.V.
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- In article <oj6u426px3s.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com> koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
- >
- >Since time immortal, avail flush has caused unused but resident
- >libraries to be flushed from RAM. There are makefiles that depend on
- >this. I could watch the libs go away with a monitor tool.
- >
- >It suddenly stopped working on my system. I don't understand why. I
- >wrote a little program that just tries to allocate 800 Mb, and this
- >correctly causes the libs to be flushed, so it wouldn't seem to be a
- >problem with the libraries themselves. (This little program compiled
- >with nostartup in SAS is a whopping 68 *bytes* :-))
- >
- >The problem isn't specific to one particular library - they all behave
- >identically. None go away with "avail flush" but they all do with
- >"AllocVec(lotsamem)".
- >
- >This behavior seems to survive reboots and power cycles. It started
- >happening very suddenly, and I don't think I did anything unusual
- >beforehand.
- >
- >Anyone know what the scoop is? I've verified that I'm running the real
- >avail command from C:.
- >
- > - steve
-
- avail flush do the same as your small program: AllocMem(lotsamem)!
- But how many memory? Not enough! I think it's 16 MByte.
-
- <ehb
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- Edwin H. Bielawski
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