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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: Sudden Memory Loss
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References: <1991May24.200958.1239@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 25 May 91 02:34:49 GMT
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In article <1991May24.200958.1239@ccu.umanitoba.ca> 
           burchil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Andrew Burchill) writes:
> In <.3ghas-@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:
> 
> >In article <1991May24.153803.4021@ms.uky.edu> 
> >           wendell@ncc.uky.edu (Wendell McCarty <wendell>) writes:
> >> Has any noticed any sudden memory loss with system 7?
> >> 
> >> On several occasions I have noticed that some of my applications would 
> >> not run because of an out of memory error.  This was confusing since I
> >> had no other apps active at the time and I am running a IIcx with 8 megs.
> 
> >I've notice this at times too.  It hasn't disrupted my life enough to look
> >into the cause, but it would be nice if it didn't happen.
> 
> Are either of you running any INITs (opps extensions) or control panels
> that you used under 6.0.7 or 5?  I remember reading that some INITs
> continued to take up more and more system memory as time went by.  This
> occured under multifinder where the system heap is dynamically allocated.

I am slowly but surely rebuilding the massive set of inits I used with 6.0.7.   
Right now I'm running Pyro 4.0.1, Superclock 3.9, Suitcase II 1.2.10, PopChar  
1.7, MacTCP 1.0.1, MacsBug 6.2b3, CD Remote Init 1.1.2, Foreign File Access  
1.1.1 (part of the CD rom software), Apple CD-ROM 3.0 or 3.1 (depending on  
which version number you read...), Ethertalk version 1.2 (note: Phase 1), plus  
all the things that came with system 7 itself.  The machine is a Mac IIci with  
4 meg of RAM, virtual memory turned off, 32-bit addressing turned off,  
file-sharing turned on.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA

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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer                       (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA
