Notice that on an explorer (in LMI or TI system) if you go away for a few hours everything you want is paged out when you come back. Things are so paged out that you can loose characters. This machine has been up 22 hours 57 minutes 28 seconds. The automatic garbage collector is enabled. There are 6,608,405 words of dynamic space, 430,421 words of static space, and 9,620,555 words of free space. Free space consists of 7,094,272 words of unallocated storage plus 1/2 of the 5,052,504 words of storage already allocated to specific regions but not yet used. Dynamic space storage distribution: Level Current Size Threshold Mode 3 35,603 139,810 Flips when size exceeds threshold. 2 176,680 349,525 Flips when size exceeds threshold. 1 55,474 None Automatic flipping disabled. 0 6,340,648 None Automatic flipping disabled. GC statistics involving time are not recorded on Explorer processors. Total: Level 0: Level 1: Level 2: Level 3: Flips: 400 0 0 0 400 Words condemned: 57,238,698 0 0 0 57,238,698 Words reclaimed: 57,191,687 0 0 0 57,191,687 Reclamation ratio: 99.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.9% So it appears this idle machine conses about 720 words per second.