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From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Term program for MINT
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.132344.8713@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 91 18:23:44 GMT
References: <1991Feb24.040959.23176@cs.wayne.edu> <25479@netcom.COM> <1991Feb27.164815.3151@cs.mcgill.ca>
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In article <1991Feb27.164815.3151@cs.mcgill.ca>, depeche@cs.mcgill.ca (Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit) writes:
> One problem with it though is that it grabs all the available memory it can
> for itself, so if you have a 2mb machine, run mint, go into bgacc, run
> stterm, and then go back into gem or whatever, you won't have any memory to
> run other stuff, because it is all being used by your other process. NOte
> that STTERM doesn't require this memory - it is only used for the capture
> buffer. If you have less memory, the capture buffer will be smaller.
> 
> When I asked the guy who wrote mint what I should do, he said that i should
> set an environment variable in INIT.PRG to limit the amount of memory it
> can grab, run STTERM from INIT, and then I when I exit I can do other
> neato stuff too.

I hope I didn't say that! The correct way of doing this is to use the
"limit" program -- say, type "limit -M 1000K stterm" to run stterm with
only 1 megabyte of memory. Or, if you want to limit all of your programs
to running in 1 Mb, you could just start gem up at the beginning with
that limit, i.e. start gem with "limit -M 1000K gem" instead of just "gem".
-- 
Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            eric.smith@uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario   7103_2622@uwovax.bitnet