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From: wendell@ncc.uky.edu (Wendell McCarty <wendell>)
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Subject: Sudden Memory Loss
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Date: 24 May 91 15:38:03 GMT
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Has any noticed any sudden memory loss with system 7?

On several occasions I have noticed that some of my applications would 
not run because of an out of memory error.  This was confusing since I
had no other apps active at the time and I am running a IIcx with 8 megs.

When I pulled down About this macintosh, I noticed that  the sum of
the system software size plus the unused size was several megs off
from the actual available size.

Later I noticed that when I issued the  command option esc  to stop finder
that I lost about 300k. 

One other time I noticed that my system software had swollen to 6.6 megs.

Anyone else experiencing these problems?
Is this a feature, a flaw, or an act of a hungry system?

Wendell McCarty
University of Kentucky