NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/coherent/5651

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From: [e-mail] (Udo Munk)
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Subject: Re: large memory allocation problems (was Re: memory protection ?)
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 14:52:09 GMT
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H.C. Pulley ([e-mail]) wrote:
: While I have never seen a panic due to large memory allocations I have seen a
: wierd problem.  I wasn't sure whether or not this was a site-specific problem
: so I kept my mouth shut.  Let's see if any of you have experienced this:
:
: If I run Empire (a game which is ~80K on disk but explodes to 1.1M in core)
: when there are few programs running, the program crashes with the message that
: an allocation was truncated from ~800K to ~500K.  If some programs are loaded,
: then it works fine.

I can't reproduce the problem here. Empire runs without this error message,
if it is the only programm runned from one active login. It also runs,
if a lot of other processes are active from other logins. It doesn't start,
if there isn't enough memory left for it, but it doesn't crash my system.
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