[comp.sys.amiga.tech] Chip memory fragmentation

nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch) (08/14/90)

My 1000 (512+1.5Mb Inboard, 1.3) is suffering frlom random crashes.  As
far as I can tell, the chip memory is spontaneously fragmenting.  At least
that's what "avail" tells me.  All of a sudden the largest chunk drops
to appx 1-10K and if I'm lucky I can exit gracefully and reboot.

This happens regardless of what is being run  and seems to occur
fastest is I run nothing at all.

My amiga is fairly early ('86) so I have grounded the pals and 68000.  I've
also upgraded the pals.

Any hints, suggestions or strategies would be most appreciated,

tx,
     neil         nmm@apss.ab.ca