1. It's normal. It's always being used up and then gets freed later on.
Dunno why it does it. Don't worry about it.
2 & 3 are the realm of someone more knowlegable than me.
Brad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradford Schmidt [mailto:brad_at_jojoro.com]
> Sent: 26 February 2002 17:11
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: [NTLK] Heap Sucker
>
>
>
> Say.....
>
> On my 2100, when I run Avi's backdrop, I often watch my heap
> drop (comes
> with age?) all the way to 40k or so before it bounces back to
> 360k. I can
> make it get slurped bu repeatedly opening the extras drawers,
> etc. This
> doesn't happen with, say, nifty drop.
>
> My questions:
> 1- is that normal? (I don't remember it happening like that)
>
> 2 - How does the heap management work, anyway?
>
> 3 - Does it do any real good to tap a heap app to free it up?
> (Psychologically it does....:))
>
> b
>
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