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From: treid@sscafit-ab.arpa (Thomas F. Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Memory Fragmentation Question
Message-ID: <184@sscafit-ab.arpa>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 11:25:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: sscafit-.184
Posted: Mon Aug 24 11:25:30 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Aug-87 03:20:35 EDT
References: <556489503.138.te07.linesville.ibm032@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: treid@ssc.UUCP (Thomas F. Reid)
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
Lines: 31
Keywords: memory fragmentation binaries
Summary: Post it--please!

[This is my first posting, line-eater, so go ahead...make my day!]

In article <556489503.138.te07.linesville.ibm032@andrew.cmu.edu> te07#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Epperly) writes:
>Am I correct in thinking that the Amiga's memory management causes
>memory to be gradually fragmented into a bunch of little chunks?  If
>this is so, has anyone written a program to coalesce these small chunks
>into bigger chunks?  I would appreciate both any information or
>programs that deal with this problem.  If you are sending a program it
>is probably better to mail it directly to me rather than posting it on the
>bboard.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom Epperly

Such a program would INDEED be useful...from some of the posting on the
net, I see that some of my "can't allocate xx bytes" could have been caused
by memory fragmentation.  That's for micro-EMACS; I suppose similar messages
happen for other editors/programs as well.  I guess to be really useful,
the compiled program would have to be fairly small so it would fit in one
of those small fragments, or does executable code not suffer from the
fragmentation syndrome?

Anywho, I'd like a copy, too, if anybody has a lil' demon like this.  The
place to post it is (probably) comp.binaries.amiga, no?  BTW, is that 
newsgroup still going?  I haven't seen anything new there in a while...

Ciao for now,

TomR //         ARPANET:  treid@afit-ab.arpa
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