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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Sys7 and memory leakage (was Re: A weird utility & installing sys 7.0)
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References: <53092@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 May 91 06:56:30 GMT
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In article <53092@apple.Apple.COM> 
           chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, only here for the beer) writes:
> peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes:
> 
> >> I have had another irritating problem with system 7.0 a few times. It
> >> eats up/fragments the WHOLE memory. Sometimes when there is not enough
> >> memory for doing something in the finder, because another program is
> 
> >I've also had the same problem on an 8M Mac IIci.  Sounds like some
> >wierd memeory leakage to me...
> 
> And I've been running 7.0 since Alpha 9 eight+ hours a day, and never seen
> this once...
> 
> What INITs/Extenstions/Applications/etc are one these systems?

I've seen this problem too.  I'm running on a 4 meg Mac IIci.  Other than  
system 7 stuff, I am running Superclock, MacTCP, Pyro, Suitcase 1.2.10, the new  
version of the Apple CD-ROM software, and Ethertalk (phase 1, copied from my  
previous system folder).  I'm running with both VM and 32-bit addressing turned  
off.  I have file-sharing on, but that shouldn't make much difference seeing  
that I'm the only one on our Appletalk network running system 7.

I have not had enough time to try to pin the leakage down at all.  It might  
only happen when running MacTCP applications, for instance.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA