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From: burchil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Andrew Burchill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Sudden Memory Loss
Message-ID: <1991May24.200958.1239@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 24 May 91 20:09:58 GMT
References: <1991May24.153803.4021@ms.uky.edu> <.3ghas-@rpi.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In <.3ghas-@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:

>In article <1991May24.153803.4021@ms.uky.edu> wendell@ncc.uky.edu (Wendell  
>McCarty <wendell>) writes:
>> 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.

>I've notice this at times too.  It hasn't disrupted my life enough to look into  
>the cause, but it would be nice if it didn't happen.

> -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
>Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu

Are either of you running any INITs (opps extensions) or control panels
that you used under 6.0.7 or 5?  I remember reading that some INITs
continued to take up more and more system memory as time went by.  This
occured under multifinder where the system heap is dynamically allocated.

Charles
>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA