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From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: HeapFixer wanted - I'm crashing too often
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Date: 31 Oct 90 14:46:58 GMT
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In article <1990Oct30.160019.16776@silvlis.com>, jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler) writes:
> Heapfixer is not freely distributable, for some reason. It is copyrighted
> and comes with some commercial products. It is also available from
> Compuserve, but still with distribution restrictions.

Thanks. I've now been told what numbers to change with the boot block
editor I got with SUM II, so I'll give that a spin and see what happens.

> The Finder problem can probably be solved by secting the Finder icon
> in your system folder and doing Get Info on it (clover-i). Then double
> the memory allocation in the Get Info dialog.

I turned it up from 160 to 200. I'll give it a little more if the problem
persists, but I suspect the System Heap's the problem.

> jim

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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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