Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!cs.edinburgh.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Lock-ups due to DeskTop Mgr? Message-ID: <1786@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 13 Nov 90 12:34:53 GMT References: <1990Nov12.202148.6894@cs.utk.edu> Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Wavetables 'R' Us Lines: 20 In article <1990Nov12.202148.6894@cs.utk.edu>, wnn@ornl.gov (Wolfgang N. Naegeli) writes: > I rencently switched to System 6.0.7 and installed DeskTop Manager 2.0.1. > On several occasion I had my system lock up (or go into an endless loop) > when trying to empty the trash. Happened to me as well. Turn up the size of the System Heap (if you have a program which can do so) - I think I finally ran out of space, so you might be doing as well. > Is it possible that this has something to do with DiskTop Manager? > I am running dozens of INITs and CDEVs, but I have not run into a similar > problem ever before upgrading to 6.0.7 and starting to use DiskTop Manager. My guess: System Heap (where all these INIT's are going...) -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Now remember - and this is most important - you must think in Russian."