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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Memory wall
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Date: 21 Jun 91 20:49:29 GMT
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Setup: Mac SE, 4M memory, Sys 7.0, not too many INIT's

I seem to sometimes get a small wall in my memory. When going into the
About this Macintosh window, sometimes the memory is fragmented (as
evidenced by the largest available block being much smaller than what
is left when you add up everything in the box), but I am only running
Finder. It looks like someone is leaving a block of memory stuck
somewhere in the middle of my free space and it is not getting
released. But it can't be an application, since there are none running,
and when an app exits, it takes it's heap with it. So where is this
wall coming from?  I have Macsbug, so if someone tells me what to look
for, I will be perfectly willing to walk through all 4 Meg looking for
this silly thing.

Thanks,
pr
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Pete Resnick             (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)
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