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From: dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly)
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Subject: Re: Ridiculous System memory reserves...
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Date: 23 Oct 89 00:36:55 GMT
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In article <0ZEZ8MO00WBK42FUsQ@andrew.cmu.edu> cp26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Thomas Parker) writes:

>It never used to do this, but when I boot up, the System seems to be
>reserving just under two megs for itself.  This is without any inits or
>additional cdevs active.  This problem may or may not be related to a
>hard disk problem I had recently where I was forced to reformat the
>drive.  (I was DiskExpressing it and I got a broadcast, and the whole
>thing bit the dust.)

...

Have you tried looking at the RAM cache setting in the Control Panel
(under General)?  It may be that you have a meg or so set aside for this
cache, and it is being counted in the system size.

						Eric Ly
						CSLI, Stanford University



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In article <0ZEZ8MO00WBK42FUsQ@andrew.cmu.edu> cp26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Thomas Parker) writes:
>Hey!  This is what is probably a simple problem, but I can't solve it,
>so here goes...
>
>It never used to do this, but when I boot up, the System seems to be
>reserving just under two megs for itself.  This is without any inits or
>additional cdevs active.  This problem may or may not be related to a
>hard disk problem I had recently where I was forced to reformat the
>drive.  (I was DiskExpressing it and I got a broadcast, and the whole
>thing bit the dust.)
>
>I've got a list of things here that I've got active, as well as some
>system stats:
>
>I'm running an SE/30, system 6.0.3.  Total memory: 5120K
>
>Only the standard DAs (those supplied as part of the system) were active.
>
>Only the standard CDEVs and INITs were active.
>
>The TimeTalker FKEY (completely useless) is active as CMD-SHIFT-9.
>
>It never used to do this before, and I can't figure out why it's doing
>it now.


Have you tried looking at the RAM cache setting in the Control Panel
(under General)?  It may be that you have set aside a meg or more for this
cache, and it is being counted in the system size.

                                                Eric Ly
                                                CSLI, Stanford University