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At the end it went in a [B]very nice interlocked loop[/B] where all 4 tasks were allocating/dellocating memory and nothing was progressing, like in the classical problems from my university (years ago), with semaphores and philosophers eating rice with chopsticks.[/QUOTE]Isn't it lovely to see a problem situation arise in the real world just as the theory in class said it would? :-)

Makes one wonder how much of the theory might be based on real-world experience. :-)

[QUOTE=LaurV;303370]Thanks to everybody for the help. I might have been blind when I was reading the undoc.txt file. Now searching it for MaxHighMem bla bla, it is written BIG inside... I added it to the prime.txt and it seems to work (even the undoc said it should be in local.txt)[/QUOTE]Beware of disrespecting hard-won wisdom encoded in undoc.txt

[QUOTE=LaurV;303563]Grrr.. correction: it does not work, and I just lost another 5 hours in memory negotiations.... It has to be added in the local.txt, exactly as the undoc.txt explains... :surprised,[/QUOTE]Those who've felt the UnDoc dragon's bite may accord more respect to humble undoc.txt