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Article #7468Memory compactification runs drive??
From: david fry
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 18:27
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 18:27
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I've noticed that calls to the Toolbox routine MaxMem (which does heap compactification) cause my WhisperDrive(tm) hard drive to seek the System file. This is happening in an application I'm writing and with the Diskinfo DA if you select "Compact memory" (although that may call the CompactMem toolbox routine). It also happens from a floppy (startup) disk, but with my hard drive still connected. It doesn't seem to me as though this happened before. Why does the function call cause the program to access the System file? David Fry fry@huma1.harvard.EDU Department of Mathematics fry@harvma1.bitnet Harvard University fry%huma1@harvsc4.bitnet Cambridge, MA 02138 ...!harvard!huma1!fry
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!rutgers!husc6!husc4!fry_b From: fry_b@husc4.harvard.edu (david fry) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Memory compactification runs drive?? Message-ID: <310@husc6.HARVARD.EDU> Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 14:27:59 EDT Article-I.D.: husc6.310 Posted: Fri Oct 3 14:27:59 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 11:58:19 EDT Sender: news@husc6.HARVARD.EDU Reply-To: fry_b@husc4.UUCP (david fry) Distribution: net Organization: Harvard Science Center Lines: 15