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Article #13790Re: AVAIL FLUSH stopped working!?
From: Jeff Lavin
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 06:57
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 06:57
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In article <4l2a19$5fm@tribune.concentric.net>, Martin Swope <Mswope@cris.com> wrote: >Well, I saw this post about a month ago, looked at it briefly, moved on. >Now it's happened to me! Here's my situation: > >A1200 (258 meg HD); recently acquired Blizzard 1230-IV board (no FPU). No >problem using AVAIL FLUSH - I could gain an additional smidgen of memory >with it. Today I received 16 megs of 60ns fast ram - now AVAIL and AVAIL >FLUSH give the same result! I run a program, close it, and AVAIL FLUSH >doesn't release the memory! > >Martin Swope Avail FLUSH only asks for up to 8 megs of memory. I really have no idea why they chose to write it that way. You must use something else. Basically, anything that will try to allocate more memory than is available will cause a system memory panic and release resources that are not in use. ========================================================================= ========================================================================= -- The Puzzle Factory, Inc. | "Quality software tools for the Amiga" Veneta, Oregon |--------------------------------------- Voice : (503) 935-3709 | Jeff Lavin -- jlavin@teleport.com Visit our home page - http://www.teleport.com/~jlavin/Puzzle.shtml
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: jlavin@teleport.com (Jeff Lavin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: AVAIL FLUSH stopped working!? Date: 17 Apr 1996 23:57:20 -0700 Organization: The Puzzle Factory, Inc. Message-ID: <4l4p4g$d2d@linda.teleport.com> References: <4l2a19$5fm@tribune.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com