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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Flashing "Largest Unused Block"?
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Date: 13 Jun 90 17:46:59 GMT
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In article <1671@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jlhaferman@l_cae07.icaen.uiowa.edu 
(Jeffrey Lawrence Haferman) writes:
> A friend has a MacIIx with system 6.0.4 installed.  We did
> an "about the finder" and the largest unused block number was
> flashing, and would alternate between 7122 K and 7130 K.  We 
> closed all applications and all windows, and did the "about..."
> again, and the "largest unused block" was constant.  We then
> double clicked on his hard disk icon, which opened up a single
> window, did the "about..." again, and the largest unused block
> number was again flashing, alternating between numbers.  The difference
> between the two numbers was again 8 K.  
> 
> What is happening here?  I've got an SE with a measly 1 Meg of RAM,
> so I haven't the foggiest about those goofy Mac IIs.

Relax.  All it means is that something is (temporarily) using some of 
MultiFinder's free memory and letting it go again.  The Finder itself is 
probably the culprit--for example, copying files under MultiFinder 
temporarily changes the "largest unused block" because it grabs its 
buffers for doing the copies from that free space.

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                                Paul Snively
                      Macintosh Developer Technical Support
                             Apple Computer, Inc.

chewy@apple.com

Just because I work for Apple Computer, Inc. doesn't mean that I believe 
what they believe, or vice-versa.
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