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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Gremlins are munching my memory! (FastRam)
- Message-ID: <crystal.726364249@glia>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 23:50:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.726364249
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- In <EACHUS.93Jan6174056@goldfinger.mitre.org> eachus@goldfinger.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
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-
- > The one thing implied by all this discussion but not actually
- >mentioned is that the system will flush unused libraries before
- >telling an application that its memory request failed. So avail flush
- >is useful for diagnostic purposes, but not needed to load
- >applications.
-
- The problem is not in LOADING them, but UNLOADING them... I want my memory
- back after a program is finished and I have closed it. Avail flush is at
- least helping me to recover *some* of it, by getting rid of those unused
- libraries. :>
-
- > However, memory fragmentation can get you down, and is worth
- >taking out a bit of insurance. There are some cases where putting
- >"avail flush" in a script which creates presistant processes or tasks
- >will insure that the stack frames are not placed so as to leave holes.
- >In particular, my startup scripts go through some contortions to leave
- >memory as unfragmented as possible.
-
- Ingles, por favor? Nicht sprecken zie Francais... :<
-
- How does "flushing" something from memory "create" a process?
- And if you are freeing up unused memory, how is this fragmenting it?
-
- Yep, it's me again,
-
- Crystal
- :>
-