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From: costello@stx.UUCP (Michael E. Costello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Increasing the system size
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Date: 13 Dec 90 10:41:16 GMT
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In article <667@treehouse.UUCP>, andyp@treehouse.UUCP (Andy Peterman) writes:
> In article <585@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman) writes:
> >
> >  I believe that I once read the when in MultiFinder and you get info on the
> >finder, that the system bar should be 3/4 full.  Is this right?  I have
> >_never_ seen my system bar anything less than a solid bar.
> >  If I need to allocate more memory to my system, how do I do it?
> 
> I've never seen the System bar less than about 90% full under MultiFinder.
> As it turns out, the system heap can grow and shrink under MultiFinder. 
> The top boundary of the system heap is the bottom boundary of the
> MultiFinder heap.  This boundary will move up and down depending on
> demands within the system heap.  Therefore, the system usage bar is
> somewhat meaningless.  For example, watch the heap size (numeric value)
> change as you open and close DA's.
> 
> 
What you need is the Heap Tool init, which allocates additional memory to
the heap.  I don't know where do get it online, but it is a shareware program.

--=>MC