Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!m2c!wpi.WPI.EDU!macman From: macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Sudden Memory Loss Message-ID: <1991May24.232029.3510@wpi.WPI.EDU> Date: 24 May 91 23:20:29 GMT References: <1991May24.153803.4021@ms.uky.edu> Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lines: 28 In an article wendell@ncc.uky.edu (Wendell McCarty ) rambles: >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. A few people have reported this... I have never seen it though. I'm wondering if it is machine or extension dependant....?? >Later I noticed that when I issued the command option esc to stop finder >that I lost about 300k. This is probably normal. If you stop the finder, it will immediately start up again. As a result, the space occupied by the killed finder might still be considered "occupied" by the new finder. So, it would load in a different area, causing your memory to become fragmented in a different way, thus decreasing the size of the "largest block". Make sense? - Chris =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chris Silverberg INTERNET: macman@wpi.wpi.edu Worcester Polytechnic Institute Main Street USA 508-832-7725 (sysop) America Online: TfChris WMUG BBS 508-832-5844 (sysop)