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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System Heap full under 'about finder'
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Date: 30 Jan 91 03:47:00 GMT
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In article <2651@sparko.gwu.edu> sm196103@seas.gwu.edu (Scott Cherkofsky)
writes:
>     ...(description of some problems)...
>
>I then thought of the system heap.  I had been having 'dry' reboots every
>once in a while (DRY - when the screen will flash and seem to restart without
>shutting down) so I checked the About Finder window and found that the 
>System was taking all of its memory bar up.  There was no white at all in the
>bar so I figured that I would solve the problem by adding more mem to the Heap
>with HeapFixer.
>
>I upped the mem. to 128k extra for each drive (2 80's) and restarted, the 
>System still took up the entire bar.  I am at my wits end.  I seem to have
>tried everything I can think of.  Any of you have any ideas?
>


The amount of memory you need doesn't have much to do with how many disk drives
you have.  128K isn't all that much to increase the heap.  I've had to up mine
by something like 500K.  The amount of memory you're actually using won't
change until you catch up with the system heap you were already using.  In your
"About Finder..." dialog, how much memory is the System taking?

Since you still have this problem with all your inits disabled, do you have a
RAM cache enabled?

You might also want to try something called HeapTool (a cdev) to do this, as it
has some advantages over HeapFixer (HeapTool just some useful options).

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy New York, USA