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- From: davidm@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (David Morgenstern)
- Subject: Re: System Heap Woes!! Help Please!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.235938.22865@csus.edu>
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <1992Nov10.121047.1200@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> <keith-101192142607@kip-16.taligent.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:59:38 GMT
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- In article <keith-101192142607@kip-16.taligent.com> keith@taligent.com (Keith Rollin) writes:
- >This reminds me of The Night Two DTS Engineers Went Stupid. Several years
- >ago, I was trying to track down the same thing: why was my system heap so
- >damn big? I laboriously unloaded and loaded INITs and rebooted, keeping
- >careful track of how much memory each INIT used up. After stripping my
- >system down to the bones, my heap was still larger than what I expected.
- [lots of deleted searching and testing done that night...]
- >...it was the RAM cache.
-
- I like these kind of stories. I remember a few years ago sitting in
- someone else's office trying to get some important work done. The
- hard drive attached to the Mac SE would not mount. I tried every
- kind of utility over and over -- nothing would bring the drive to
- the desktop. I finally checked the cable. It had fallen out.
- Duhhhh!
-
- daviD
- --
- David Morgenstern, BMUG CheerLeader davidm@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
- "Miracles do occur - but they rarely provide food."
- -- Talmud: Shabbat, 53b
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