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From: bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt (BNR))
Subject: Re: Appleshare: How can I give finder enough memory to mount /u?
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.132107.2273@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research
References:<10396@ncar.ucar.edu> <1621@wcc.oz.au>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1991 13:21:07 GMT

In article <1621@wcc.oz.au> tom@wcc.oz.au (Tom Evans) writes:
> Yes, but as the message from your Mac shows, it is your Mac's FINDER
> that has run out of memory, and not AppleShare. Increase the
> Finder's default MultiFinder partition memory size in it's Get-Info
> display (select Finder in your system folder, select "Get Info"....).
> 

Good advice, as usual from Tom.  It turns out most of the default multifinder
partition sizes that Apple ships cause things to break a lot more often than you might think.   Mind you, I only hear about *problems* with our 2500 Macs,
so I might be getting a biased view.  :-)

On new system installs, I routinely bump up, not only the Finder's 
allocation, but also Print Monitor's, and DAHandler's.  Then not only do I 
run into the Finder complaining a lot less, but I get less obscure print 
failures, or messages that no more DA's can be opened.    

By the way the DAHandler size can't be increased with the standard 
"Highlight file, select "Get Info".  Yah gotta open DAHandler's "size" 
resource with ResEdit and bump it up from it's default of 16000 bytes.

And finally it's usually a good idea to edit the boot blocks to increase 
system heap size and the maximum number of files that can be 
simultaneously opened.

It sure would be nice if Apple provided a utility for power users to do 
all this.   As it is, you need a handful of different 3rd-party tools to 
"tune" up a new Mac system install.... :-)

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