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- From: eas3714@ultb.isc.rit.edu (E.A. Story)
- Subject: Re: Gremlins are munching my memory! (FastRam)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.023635.27664@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Summary: avail flush
- Originator: eas3714@ultb
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- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
- References: <crystal.726198900@glia>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:36:35 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <crystal.726198900@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
- >I've discovered the CLI commands "avail" and "status" as well as the shareware
- >program ARTM, but none of those will tell me just how MUCH memory is being
- >taken up by each individual item. :<
-
- I dunno if making a list like that is even possible. You could use
- MungWall and MungList.. but that's not a terribly good solution to your
- problem.
-
- >Also...
- >
- >Isthereawayto get programs to RELEASE all of the memory they snatch when you
- >load them? It's frustrating to have 900K, load a program that takes 150K and
- >only releases 100K of it when you close it, leaving 50K still in memory that
- >can't be accessed. :< This plays havoc with Pagestream when I want to work
- >with large files or graphics and the memory that was there earlier is now
- >unavailable... :<
-
- If you're using 2.0.. type "avail flush", or in both 1.3 and 2.0.. type
- "stack 10000000" (choose a ridiculously large amount). The system will
- expunge libraries and merge memory blocks for you. I have "avail
- flush" tied to a hotkey in Toolmanager myself.
-
-
- --
- "THAT is a DRY turtle. That turtle is NOT moist!"
- Ezra Story, a student at RIT, and
- eas3714@ultb.isc.rit.edu, his trusty(?) mailing address.
-