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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Does RAM: ever retry?
Message-ID: <652@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 20:28:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.652
Posted: Sat Sep  5 20:28:02 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Sep-87 05:42:36 EDT
References: <510@sugar.UUCP> <6619@eddie.MIT.EDU> <535@sugar.UUCP> <151@jc3b21.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: RAM: out of memory RETRY CANCEL AllocMem
Summary: That's not a useful solution...

In article <151@jc3b21.UUCP>, fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
> In article <595@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > I think RAM: has a bug in it. I got "RAM: is full". I quit ARC. Now, ARC is a
> > big program, so after I quit it RAM: should have plenty of room. Well, this
> 
>      I've never had a problem like that.  When I get "RAM: is full" I can
> always delete some files from RAM: and try again.  Could it be that ARC didn't 
> free all its memory?  

I can get space in RAM: by deleting files from RAM: too. Unfortunately, that 
doesn't help in this case. You can't always do that.

Assume, for a minute, that you're compiling to RAM:. Now then, how can you
delete files from RAM: when the only file in RAM: is the one you're trying
to build? What you need to do is free up more memory and add it to RAM:.

And the "free space count" in the workbench window tells me that ARC is
freeing all its memory.
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