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- From: dave@news.ccutah.edu (dave martin)
- Subject: Copy hugefile par: causes crash
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.060059.29583@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 06:00:59 GMT
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- I have noticed that the AmigaDos (version 2.1 KS37.175 WB38.35) copy command
- of the form
- copy somefile par:
- will allocate an amount of memory about equal to the size of file being copied.
- after a couple minutes, the mouse goes into chunky mode, the system becomes
- less and less responsive, and it becomes necessary to reboot the system.
-
- I wrote my own copy program (while not done read buffer from file write buffer
- to par:), It also exibits this behavior (not sure about the allocation of
- memory, but the slower and slower behavior was the same), indicating a bug
- in par: or parallel.device.
-
- What is going on? This is an A3000/25 no accellerator.
-
- dave@csulx.weber.edu (ignore the header address when sending mail,
- its probably wrong.)
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