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From: mplevine@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Marshall P. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Memory fragmentation
Summary: Are there any WORKING utilities that will unfragment memory?
Message-ID: <13818@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 90 22:00:59 GMT
Reply-To: mplevine@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Marshall P. Levine)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Princeton University
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I have an amiga 2000 with 3 megs of ram.  I noticed that after using the
machine for a long while, the "Largest" column in avail shrinks
drastically (after running many large programs).  I think that the
memory freed up by these large programs is returned to the system in the
form of fragmented blocks.  This causes problems when I try to run a
program that requires large chunks of memory after my memory has been
fragmented.  I have an old version of sweep that does not seem to do
anything.  Are there any programs (like a new version of sweep) that
will unfragment all of my memory?  Thanks in advance.

-- Marshall Levine
mplevine@phoenix.princeton.edu