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From: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Does RAM: ever retry?
Message-ID: <6619@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 18:52:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: eddie.6619
Posted: Wed Aug 19 18:52:04 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 04:36:29 EDT
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Reply-To: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: RAM: out of memory RETRY CANCEL AllocMem

In article <510@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
}Occasionally I get Out of Disk Space requestors on RAM:. When this happens
}I usually try unloading a few programs to make space for RAM:, but it never
}seems to help. I can see large chunks of contiguous space showing up on my
}fuel gauge, but when I request "RETRY" it always comes back immediately. Does
}RAM: ever try to allocate more memory after a failure of this type?
}-- 
}-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)

Try unloading one big program rather than a lot of little programs.  Then
"RETRY" will work.  It appears to require a 30K contiguous chunk to continue
correctly.  I've actually had over 100K available and gotten that RAM: 
requester.  By deleting something like ln (the Manx linker) or sometimes
emacs I can get it to continue.

	Gary