At 10:54 �� 8/2/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>>Well at startup SMS (and QDOS) start allocating space for Slave blocks in >>order to access faster files that are constantly being used. >>Upon the end of the operation, this space is not returned to the OS though. > > >I do not believe this. In fact I believe the contrary. Slave blocks are >in fact transiently used by QDOS, but they are free RAM space for all >the other activities in the system. > >Arnould > Dickens writes: "Since slave block allocation is simply a form of allocating memory, it should only be done by access layer calls or scheduler loop calls" Only QDOS can de-allocate (without tricks) memory from slave blocks and I think it doesn't do it.. I have to research a little bit more though Phoebus
