RE: [MiNT] MiNT problem

[Mario Becroft <mb@tos.pl.net>]

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mario Becroft [mailto:mb@tos.pl.net]
> > Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 3:17 AM
> > To: Frank Naumann
> > Cc: mint@fishpool.com
> > Subject: [MiNT] MiNT problem
> 
> > it 50 times and it will crash almost every time. These crashes usually
> > take a few days to start happening. Within the first day 
> > after turning on
> > the TT I seldom get a crash. After two days I might get a 
> > crash. After 4
> > days I am usually getting lots of crashes.
> > 
> > Then to finish everything, after 4 days to a week the 
> > computer will just
> > freeze, and must be rebooted. This freeze can happen independently of
> 
> I know this is a very obvious question, but have you checked how much memory
> you have left? How big is the largest block?

I have MAXMEM set to 16 MB, and according to free the largest block is
just under that size at present. The crashes seem to happen largely
regardless of the size of the largest free block. The largest free block
has often been similarly large when the freeze happens, although I can't
measure exactly since once it's frozen I am forced to reboot.

However I agree it does seem suspiciously as if the problem might be
related to memory fragmentation. I wonder if it's got to do with the
amount of free blocks, rather than the size of them.

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