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From: c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mac IIci problems
Message-ID: <1990Oct13.002237.15313@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 90 00:22:37 GMT
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I am a long-time MacPlus user with a new shiney Mac IIci (with 4Mb of
memory).  I have been extremely frustrated with the IIci and hope that some
IIci guru can help identify my problem(s) and straighten out my system.

(1) The IIci seems to crash *constantly*.  Often this happens doing nothing
more sophisticated than clicking on a window.  The system hangs and has to
be rebooted.

(2) Dispite the 4Mb, I am often unable to run more than one program -- even
though I can always run three or four programs on my plus (exactly the same
programs as on the ci) with no difficulty.  

I have expanded the memory allocated for finder.  I have not been able to
get "heap-fixer" or any other tool to "fix the heap" (whatever that means)
and don't understand why that would be necessary on a IIci but not on a
plus.  The system on the IIci seems to take up a huge amount of memory and
I conjecture that it is doing so in such a way that memory is getting
fragmented preventing multiple programs from running.

Am I missing something?  Will my problems be solved if I can only "fix" the
heap?  Is there some configuration somewhere that I've neglected that's
eating up memory and subtly boobytrapping my system causing it to crash?

I'd appreciate any advice!
Thanks!

--Walter




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