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From: sm196103@seas.gwu.edu (Scott Cherkofsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: System Heap full under 'about finder'
Keywords: Help!
Message-ID: <2651@sparko.gwu.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 02:45:00 GMT
Reply-To: sm196103@seas.gwu.edu (Scott Cherkofsky)
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Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C.
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Ok, a few days ago I posted about a pausing problem that I was having with
my Mac.  It periodically pauses and thinks about the universe (or something
as stupid for a personal computer to think about) and I cannot seem to track
it down.

I have an SE/30 running 6.0.7 with 8 megs of RAM and 2x80 meg HD's.  I have
taken out all the inits and Cdevs that I most recently put in - Just to see
if it was one of them.  The problem still popped up.  I even went to the 
length of reinstalling my system software but no cigar - it still happens.

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?

Anybody from Apple watching/reading?

Thanx in advance for any help you can offer.

Scott


-- 
Scott Cherkofsky			"The experience of going through
sm196103@seas.GWU.edu			 life may be intended as a warning
Mechanical Engineering student		 not to do it again."
Executive Office of the President		-- Ashleigh Brilliant