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From: jamiep@ncoast.UUCP (Jamie Purdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CloseFonts() problems
Summary: UnFraggin Memory with huge Alloc: Please only do this to CHIP first.
Message-ID: <13299@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 14:19:42 GMT
References: <3599@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <10097@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: jamiep@ncoast.UUCP (Jamie Purdon)
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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and libraries when a "larger than available" amount of memory is requested.
 
PROBLEM: The printer.device gets "flushed" "too often" when this
"huge alloc" method is used.  This forces the floppy-based user
to keep re-inserting the Workbench disk, since devices are flushed as
well as fonts.
 
SUGGESTION: Do (2) "huge alloc"s.  The first one would ask for "a large
amount" (>1mb) of CHIP memory.  After this first Alloc, see if you have
 (can allocate) the desired hunk.  Then, (only after clearing out CHIP,)
go ahead with a "huge alloc" of FAST memory.  This method will "un-frag"
memory without clobbering all of it needlessly.

 
Jamie Purdon