RE: [MiNT] memory fragmentation

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Thomas Binder
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:15 PM
> To: MiNT mailing list
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] memory fragmentation
>
>
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:12:50PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > Well -- any memory which is Mxalloc'ed as non-private needs to
> reside in a
> > global memory space. Where's the problem???
>
> Well, because /a lot/ of applications don't use Mxalloc() for
> AV-protocol - I know that's a problem of these applications, but they'll
> a refuse to work, wherease with MP, simply setting the program flags
> helps. Or we'd have to keep all non-private memory global, which seems a

The same flags need to be evaluated here. This is a no-brainer, as the
kernel internally used the same functions for creating the TPA, right?

> waste ;)
>
> SLBs would also be affected, btw.

Why?