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Re: AVAIL FLUSH stopped working!?

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From: Harry Flaxman
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 12:17
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On 17-Apr-96 08:27:21, Martin Swope wrote about AVAIL FLUSH stopped working!?,
in comp.sys.amiga.applications :
>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!

>Can anybody tell me if there is a fix for this? Or is this the price I
>pay for having a screamingly fast A1200? (and it is........ man! Check out
>http://www.jncs.com for some incredible pricing on fast ram. Now I can run
>a 256-color WB with no slowdown at all!)

Maybe everything in memory (libs and all) is being used when you try the
FLUSH?  That's the only thing I can think of.  You might look at what's tying
resources up after you close the program.

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