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From: dac@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: ramdrive repacking
Message-ID: <18a6e8ac.ARN2a12@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au>
Date: 8 Feb 91 12:35:24 GMT
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In article <864@cbmger.UUCP>, Peter Kittel GERMANY writes:

> In article <18a42c4c.ARN295c@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au!prolix!dac@munnari.OZ.AU writes:
> >In article <88002@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, deron meranda writes:
> >
> >> Does anyone know about any programs which can "repack" a ramdrive?
> >
> >I believe that you can just do a request for a huge amount of memory
> >(something insane, like 4Gigabytes), and that will force the OS to clean up
> 
> No, this is not the solution. The OS only can flush out libraries
> and other stuff where the use count is zero, but it can't rearrange
> memory chunks of a fragmented RAM disk to one big chunk. It simply

Oh, ok. Thankyou for clearing up my misconception.

Dac
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