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From: FERGUSON@TMASL.EXXON.COM
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Subject: Gimme my RAM Back!!!
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Date: 19 May 89 15:12:00 GMT
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On any machine with 8 Megs of RAM, I have a process that needs only
4 megabytes, dedicated hardware memory. I can't for the life of me
steal it back from the operating system. If I had all the memory
I need, things would go nice & fast like they have to, but when
I have to swap to virtual memory, things can really put you to
sleep.

How can I keep sr9.7 from eating my memory?! I thought we weren't
going to see such problems until sr10 (which still gets my goat-
I was mad a year ago about memory-eating OS's, and that was before
our neighbors to the far east decided they were on a hot product)

All I want is for the OS to leave 4 of the 8 Mbytes alone. Anyone
know how? I've tried setting top process priorities, and killing
all other processes other than the DM, and nothing seems to help.

Thanks to anyone with any ideas.
Scott Ferguson
ferguson@erevax.bitnet