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From: nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Chip memory fragmentation
Keywords: What causes it? How to fix?
Message-ID: <2285@apss.apss.ab.ca>
Date: 13 Aug 90 19:32:36 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Alberta Public Safety Services
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My 1000 (512+1.5Mb Inboard, 1.3) is suffering frlom random crashes.  As
far as I can tell, the chip memory is spontaneously fragmenting.  At least
that's what "avail" tells me.  All of a sudden the largest chunk drops
to appx 1-10K and if I'm lucky I can exit gracefully and reboot.

This happens regardless of what is being run  and seems to occur
fastest is I run nothing at all.

My amiga is fairly early ('86) so I have grounded the pals and 68000.  I've
also upgraded the pals.

Any hints, suggestions or strategies would be most appreciated,

tx,
     neil         nmm@apss.ab.ca