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From: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Subject: Re: Mega ST4 slows down and seizes ...
Message-ID: <9003262009.AA24089@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
References: <1990Mar26.145406.13953@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 26 Mar 90 20:11:33 GMT
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In article <1990Mar26.145406.13953@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, romwa@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum) writes:
>A friend of mine is having problems with running WP for extended
>periods of time on a Mega ST4.  She has GDOS setup using Neocept's
>driver for and HP DeskJet+.  After about an hour of heavy usage, the
>whole system slows down to a crawl (consistently) and all menu
>operations/dialog boxes etc. take minutes to process.  Does anyone
>have any clues as to what is causing the problem?  Her documents
>aren't terribly long (about 12 pages each).  It seems like the system
>is bleeding memory somewhere since getting out of WP to the desktop
>and coming back into WP doesn't help.  It requires a full softboot to
>fix things up.  Could it be TurboJet, the GDOS driver?  At this time
>she is only using WP so she can live without GDOS being installed.
>
>advTHANKSance
>
>Pavneet Arora
>...!utgpu!rom!pavneet
>
>         or
>
>rom!pavneet@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
>
>Royal Ontario Museum
>100 Queen's Park
>Toronto, Ontario
>M5S 2C6
>(416) 586-5626

There is at least one virus on the ST that exhibits a system slowdown as one
of it's symptomes.  Get VKILLER from terminator, (new version 3.something),
and see if that cures your problem.  If you cannot ftp, send me email.

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