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From: breemen@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (E. van Breemen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Memory Alloc during Duplicate (WB)
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Date: 18 Jun 91 08:43:13 GMT
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Normally I am using a SHELL instead of the WB to do things on my Amiga. A
friend of mine said something strange about the Duplicate function of
the WB. He said that during a duplicate of an empty(!) directory the WB
allocates all the memory available in the Amiga (only +- 10K chip left).
He has an Amiga with 1Mb. I have checked this on my Amiga with 3Mb. The
same thing happened on my machine. Appearantly, the WB needs 2.8 Mb to
duplicate an empty directory. Why is that? Commodore does know of the
fact that intuition crashes under low memory conditions. I have been
able to crash my Amiga relativly easy. I hope this has been fixed under
2.0 for more stability.

Erwin van Breemen