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From: mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: The case of the vanishing memory
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.070655.1515@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 12 Mar 91 07:06:55 GMT
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["Share and enjoy! Share and enjoy! Our plastic girls and plastic boys!"]

I have noticed that when I open a window, then procede to create an event in
 said window (MOUSEMOVE, clicking on a gadget, etc), sometimes I'll 
loose 56 bytes, sometimes.

Ok, so I assume that this is my IntuiMessage (52 bytes + 4 bytes overhead?).
But it is not consistant. It only happens early in the window's life. I can
generate events like crazy, but after a while, the memory loss will stop.

This is very sporadic, and the events that appear to be eating away at 
the memory still get through for me to process and reply to. So its not
like I am ignoring them or anything, but it does seem to have something
to do with how quickly I can get to process them. 

This only happens on my slow (read 68000) machines. On my 020 A1000 and
A3000 it doesn't happen.

So anybody have any idears?

mike 


P.S. Are there any good tools available to check memory fragging?

-- 
"outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend, inside a dog, it's
 too dark to read"-Groucho

Mike Smithwick - ames!zorch!mike