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- From: toin@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Toin Bloo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: S3: Re: Odd Psion 3 behaviour
- Message-ID: <7129@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:35:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.083047.3199@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Philip Elwell (pe@cam-orl.co.uk) wrote:
- : John, I think your confidence is misplaced. My S3 is always set to update when
- : I press the System button. My machine also slows down occasionally for while.
- : The more CPU intensive your activities are, the longer the slow period. This
- : is a separate phenomena to the 'Updating Lists' slowdown. I have always assumed
- : , as does steve@geosys.co.uk, that the S3 is performing some sort of garbage
- : collection/memory defragmentation.
- :
- : On a similar subject, I have seen my S3 switch itself on for no apparent
- : reason. I think this has been mentioned before, but has anyone spotted any
- : pattern to this? More importantly, is there anyone who thinks their S3 does not
- : do this? I have seen it happen to several S3s, and I have a nasty feeling that
- : if they aren't set to auto power off they will stay on.
- :
-
- If you read the document file shipped with the 'Spy' application, you find
- the S3 has some jobs running (not visible) to collect released blocks of
- memory. That's garbage collecting in the main memory, not on disks. Perhaps
- somebody can watch this strange processes with Spy?
-
- I never saw my S3 switch on automaticaly. If that happenend, was the serial
- link connected? That would do the trick, then.
-
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