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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Sys7 and memory leakage (was Re: A weird utility & installing sys 7.0)
Message-ID: <0B01FFFB.f0lsbz@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 91 15:41:53 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
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In article <1rbhyzc@rpi.edu>, gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:
> 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.

I don't think it's MacTCP since I don't run that (no internet in my
house).  I didn't have filesharing turned on either.

What *seems* to happen is that I fill up, or almost fill up RAM, then
quit some of the Apps.  I also am pretty sure I've used a control
panel since bootup.

It's a hard one to characterize, but it happened twice this weekend.
I'll try to track it some more...

-- michael

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