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Re: "Memory defrag" patches and newer execs
« on: January 06, 2006, 01:41:19 PM »
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Since the memory allocation routines has changed in piru's exec44 and exec45 of AmigaOS to reduce memory fragmentation, i want to ask if simple memory defrag patches like fragless and fragcure are still useful or obsolete.

They are still useful.

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Also: I've heard that these patches (or is it PoolMem?) can cause serious HD corruption with some FileSystems like PFS. Is this true?

That's nonsense (the often repeated claim is that poolmem  would cause corruption with pfs3). I used PoolMem and PFS3 for years, and never had any problems.

Also afaik fragless and fragcure just play with MEMF_REVERSE. That is safe for sure...
 

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Re: "Memory defrag" patches and newer execs
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2006, 03:52:11 PM »
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I'd blame Heretic 2 rather. Does it even return all memory to system at exit?