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Article #7547Re: Memory compactification runs drive??
From: scott douglass
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1986 18:53
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1986 18:53
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In article <310@husc6.HARVARD.EDU> fry_b@husc4.UUCP (david fry) writes:
>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.
The _MaxMem trap compacts the heap and purges all purgable blocks. Most
resources (including fonts) are (or should be) purgable. The next time
one of these resources is needed (to draw text, for instance) it will
have to be read in from disk. It's very likely that the disk access you
mention is in response to some _GetResource trap.
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--scott douglass, Apple Computer
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