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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: tandy 16B and 16 bit compress (
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.012925.10233@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 27 Dec 90 01:29:25 GMT
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>Maxmem is the maximum amount of memory a SINGLE process can use.  So if
>you ran more than one process at the same time (very likely) each
>process running would be allowed to get up to that number.  

Ok, j'ai compris.

>You can think of maxmem as a sort of anti-memory-hog device, as it
>keeps a single program from grabbing more memory than a non-virtual
>environment could stand.  So you don't want to set Maxmem so high that
>a single process (pathalias?) can get everything.  "It would be bad."

Ok. But thrashing sounds like a better fate to me than running a pipe
for 5 minutes and then getting "process killed". I can always go watch
a TV documentary while waiting. :-) I should explain that I'm the only
user on the system, I don't have a modem (and don't intend to get one,
too much temptation to waste time and phone money; I bring disks back
from work) and I don't run cron jobs. So far the only program that
hasn't run in 256k is compress-16 and I need that only to unpack
files.

>P. S.:   Get 3.2.

Ok.  Anybody want to sell me a cheap copy? I'm in Oz, by the way so
offers involving lots of shipping costs aren't attractive. Are there
any Oz 6k owners at all reading this group?  Maybe I should ask the
local Tandy office but I'd probably get puzzled looks ("what's a 6k?").
:-(