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From: john13@garfield.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Memory loss problem
Message-ID: <3787@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 10:14:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: garfield.3787
Posted: Thu Jul  9 10:14:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 09:06:25 EDT
References: <3121@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <6254@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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Summary: loading problems

In article <6254@eddie.MIT.EDU>, gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) writes:
> The Amiga OS actually keeps these libraries around in memory until this
> memory is needed for some reason.  

Is there a reason why the libraries will be expunged by memory requests from
within a program, but if you get an "insufficient free store" error while a
program is loading (and you know it is due to fonts, libraries etc causing
fragmentation) the system will not make any attempt to reclaim memory? I've had
the experience of booting a silly memory-intensive demo just to get rid of
a lot of un-expunged junk.

John