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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Slowdown on IIci...6714ksystem
Message-ID: <11559@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 90 00:28:48 GMT
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In article <1990Dec15.224416.5425@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> sharp@cs-sun-fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp) writes:
>
>    There is a known bug in the 512 ROMS (IIci/si/fx). It will cause a
>slowdown of your Mac if the application makes excessive calls to the
>memory manager. If you have memory hogs, watch out for slowdown. Apple

This is unlikely to be the cause of this particular problem.  The Memory
Manager bug does not cause the System Heap to fill up.  Also, the Memory
Manager bug only affects programs that allocate a lot of non-relocatable
blocks, which only affects a small fraction of programs.

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		 Larry Rosenstein,  Object Specialist
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