Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.wanted:1454 comp.sys.mac.system:1970 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!cs.edinburgh.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: HeapFixer wanted - I'm crashing too often Message-ID: <1092@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 29 Oct 90 13:28:33 GMT References: <90300.130914JEILOLA@MTUS5.BITNET> Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Wavetables 'R' Us Lines: 33 In an attempt to follow-up to a thread in c.s.m.system: I'm after a copy of heap-fixer (I think). I've just installed 6.0.7 on my SE/30, and I'm now running the SUM-II tools (as of last week). I seem to be having some out-of-memory problems. MIDI Manager can't open it's serial driver properly. I've had FASTBACK freeze on me. The Finder has complained about "not enough memory: please drag the files in several groups" for a single file. From what I remember, there's some kind of tiny limit in the System heap (or is it the stack?), and given all the INIT's and stuff I'm running, I think I'm filling it up. Example: putting VirusDetective 4.0.3 (which is a *big* DA) into my System file causes more problems, even if I don't run the DA. I think I'm looking for Heap Fixer, which I believe is a utility which increases the appropriate magic number in the system. I had a quick look over the main FTP archives, but couldn't find it. Does anybody have it (or a pointer to it)? w.r.t. recent articles in c.s.m.system: it's possible (I suppose) that 6.0.7 is sufficiently bigger than earlier systems that folks with lots of INIT's are hitting this limit. I was hitting it with just ONE init (SUM Partition) and a large system file, I think. Thanks in advance... if someone can get a copy of this utility to me, I'll try it out and report back... -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Now remember - and this is most important - you must think in Russian."