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Re: Memory defrag - any tool available?
« on: December 14, 2005, 10:40:55 PM »
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MskoDestny wrote:
The most a utility could do (short of mucking about with the MMU) is join contiquous free blocks in the free memory list, but I would hope the OS does this by itself.


Wouldn't that mean all of exec's memory functions would have to be patched too to take into account the page sizes used by the MMU.. and if so, wouldn't it make AllocMem/AllocVec etc wastefull for small allocations(Or does exec already have a minimum size to stop the memory lists getting stupidly long)?
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