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Article #5873Re: Files larger than available memory.
From: Peter Schachte
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 22:35
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 22:35
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In article <MWM.90Oct5145603@raven.pa.dec.com> mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >In article <6694@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > The Amiga is a multitasking and (to some extent) multiuser system. It is > desirable that it be possible to limit any program... particularly memory > hogs... to less than "all available memory". >I've as yet to run across any Amiga program that had >such a facility, even though I've encountered a fair number that will >grow as needed, or even start by grabbing large chunks of memory. Why not free clean (unmodified wrt the file) buffers when someone needs more memory than is available? I believe this can be done (if not in some easier way) by having a library which has an expunge function. This seems like a good compromise. -- -Peter Schachte pds@quintus.uucp ...!sun!quintus!pds
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!unix!quintus!pds From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Files larger than available memory. Summary: free mem when someone needs it Message-ID: <1437@quintus.UUCP> Date: 15 Oct 90 22:35:27 GMT References: <924@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> <MWM.90Oct2160058@raven.pa.dec.com> <6694@sugar.hackercorp.com> <MWM.90Oct5145603@raven.pa.dec.com> Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 17