Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu.edu!bu-cs!xylogics!merk!alliant!linus!sdl From: sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Killing Running Processes Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 90 20:17:58 GMT References: <11397@venera.isi.edu> <3572@hub.UUCP> <1990Jan14.135851.9861@NCoast.ORG> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 56 In article <1990Jan14.135851.9861@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes: > Try using GOMF. It isa commercial package, but allows you to do > much more than any PD program I have seen. You can use a utility that comes > with it called "NUKE" or "RECALL" (I forget which) to selectively remove > tasks AND their screens. Of course, and memory that the program allocated, > that is not a screen, can't be freed, and locks can't be freed (but you can use > the PD program "locks" to do that), but overall you do get vack a large > portion of the memory. Especially if the program was large itself. I own GOMF 3.0, and I too am pretty pleased with it. However, three caveats: 1. Don't spend the extra money for the "GOMF Button." This is a piece of hardware (which costs extra) that is claimed to unfreeze a locked-up Amiga (non-responsive mouse pointer, etc.). In the year or so I've owned this contraption, I have *never* been able to recover successfully from system freeze-ups that occurred. (The only such recovery I can do is using GOMF's own demo disk, which artificially generates such a condition!) 2. GOMF itself is not perfect, and some programs (e.g. Less v1.3, SID) exhibit strange behavior when running on a GOMF-protected system. (Fortunately, you can terminate GOMF when running such programs, and then enable it again later.) 3. Hypertek/Silicon Springs (the original vendor of GOMF) is no longer taking telephone calls. Did they go under? Is another company marketing and supporting GOMF? Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- J. Nicholson -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- J. Nicholson