Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usenet From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: System file modified after reboot and MMfix Message-ID: <``8^~W^@rpi.edu> Date: 25 Jan 91 00:15:54 GMT References: Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: gilead.its.rpi.edu In article yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: > > I just noticed last night that my System 6.0.7 file appears to be > modified everytime I reboot (i.e. the modification time in Get Info > changes). I started checking because I installed the MMfix (memory > management fix INIT), and then later read in mac.digest that the > MMfix INIT may cause system troubles. So has anyone seen this > behavior?? Thanks in advance for any enlighment on this. > > BTW: MMfix did not seem to increase performance - at least, not > according to Speedometer 2.5. > What you're seeing is not (necessarily) related to the MMfix init. My System file changes every time I boot up (or at least it changes every day, I don't know if it changes during the boot up process itself). I am not using the MMfix init. Many other things could be changing resources that they are storing in the system file. Note that the MMfix is not going to increase the performance of anything that Speedometer is going to check. The bug it fixes will only be noticable for some programs which exhibit a certain behavior in the way they obtain memory. It won't speed up anything but memory requests in the given situation. It will not have any effect on things like integer or floating-point performance. btw, you didn't say if you noticed any problems when using this init. Does it work okay for you? Just curious... (I do have a Mac IIci here at work, so I was thinking of trying the init) Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu