[iyonix-support] Re: Lazy Task Swapping on Iyonix/RISC OS 5.11
- From: Peter van der Vos <peterthuis@xxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:28:50 +0200
Martin wrote:
[..]
> Two things I have managed to do ...
>
> 1. I have written a simple program in Basic which PollIdles every 1 cs,
> when it just randomly reads a few pages from within its application
> workspace. This was an attempt at trying to mimic the problem I and
> others have with freezes, when BookMaker is (usually) the first task
> named on Alt-Break.
>
> And (after several days of running, tweaking the program, etc) IT HAS
> JUST FROZEN and it was the first task named after Alt-Break :-))))
[..]
I tried to do the same thing. Made a small program in C to claim 50 MB
of memory and see if anything changes in there (memtest.zip at
http://peter.drobe.co.uk). I started it up several times but until now
I didn't get a single freeze.
It is not a simple problem.
Peter.
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