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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Temp Mem Fragmentation (was Re: INIT Idea/Request)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.171946.10736@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 17:19:46 +1200
- References: <bq3yq1+@rpi.edu> <BuAp21.7JD@iat.holonet.net>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <BuAp21.7JD@iat.holonet.net>, bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
- > I feel only very large blocks of memory that NEVER ar locked during a call
- > to waitnextevent should be put in temporary memory.
- >
- > It sickens me to have to reboot all the time in system seven on a stock
- > system on a 8 meg machine (not mine) because even after quitting nearly
- > every application the damned free memory is fragmented AND LOCKED by
- > foolish people who abuse temporary memory.
-
- I think MultiFinder/Process Manager automatically frees any temporary memory
- you might have forgotten about when you quit. I'm not sure.
-
- In any case, is that machine running System 7 Tune-Up? I used to get exactly
- the same symptom all the time--a very small block (about 50 bytes) locked
- down right in the middle of my machine's RAM, after I'd quit all running
- applications. One theory was that it happened if you'd been running
- AppleEvent-aware applications. Certainly it would happen to me after I'd
- had MPW 3.3 running all weekend.
-
- But it's never happened to me since I've had Tune-Up installed.
-
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