Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Self-repairing SCSI disks!
Message-ID: <4909@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 21:12:39 GMT
References: <4275@louie.udel.EDU> <12840@cisunx.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <12840@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>Yeah, why is it that duplicating EMPTY from the workbench is so flakey?
>It doesn't crash my system (with 33 Meg drive) but the system freezes
>for about 10 seconds and the drive light comes on for a long time.  It
>can't take that long to just make a new directory and copy the icon.

	Known "bug".  WB is allocating most of the system memory in small
chunks, then releasing it.  Does not cause a crash under normal conditions,
just takes a while if you have a lot of memory.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup