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From: gabe@sol.ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MS Word won't give memory back
Message-ID: <1990Nov3.055610.6191@ctr.columbia.edu>
Date: 3 Nov 90 05:56:10 GMT
Sender: gabe@ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener)
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Now that I've gotten my SE/30 up and running with 4 megs, I'm encountering
a new problem.  System and Finder, running under multifinder, take up about
1,200K or so.  I generally leave Smartcom running, taking anohter 350 or so
K to keep that up.

Now here's the problem.  When I run MS Word, that takes up another meg or so.
When I quit out of MS Word, and then try to run a memory-hungry program like
PageMaker, there suddenly isn't enough memory available EVEN THOUGH I HAVE
QUIT OUT OF MS WORD.  For some reason, the system isn't recognizing the
memory that MS Word was using as free.

Whith MS Word running, I have about 1100K free, and without it running I
have about 1400K free, even though MS Word takes a megabyte of space.

Where is the extra memory going?  How can I force the system to do a good
old-fashioned garbage collection?

Email responses please.   I'll summarize if appropriate.

-- 
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