Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cca!jack
From: jack@cca.CCA.COM (Jack Orenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: vd0: failing to recover with probability >> 0
Message-ID: <28610@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 25 May 88 14:26:27 GMT
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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I'm using a 2 meg vd0: and putting everything needed for C compilation
in it. Lately I've been debugging some code that opens a new screen and
window and fails, leaving un-reclaimable chip memory. To get the memory
back, I do a Control-A-A, and about 40% of the time, I lose vd0:. I then
have to reload that 2 meg from floppies. 

I don't have an explanation, but I have noticed a correlation: The failures
seem to happen more frequently following out-of-memory messages about vd0:
Is this coincidental, or is there some reason why running out of memory
should later prevent vd0: from recovering?

Jack Orenstein


P.S. If anyone knows how to get back the chip memory following the
program crash, that would also be very helpful.