Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!wrdis01!nstn.ns.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!altitude!matrox!uvm-gen!kira!nic!news.cs.brandeis.edu!news!aland From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: System 7.0 and RAM Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 15:57:28 GMT References: <1991Apr11.193950.7332@cbnewsk.att.com> <1991Apr12.201532.18426@visix.com> <97@eclectic.COM> <1991Apr22.042204.1291@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: usenet@news.cs.brandeis.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Brandeis University Coalition for Boredom Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: hasses@prism.cs.orst.edu's message of 22 Apr 91 04:22:04 GMT In article <1991Apr22.042204.1291@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> hasses@prism.cs.orst.edu (Stephen Haase) writes: One VERY annoying thing I noticed with system 7's virtual memory was that x amount of HD space does not equal x amount of extra RAM. I got 7.0fc2 going and then tried to add 3 megs of RAM to my 5 physical RAM. It worked all right, but it took 8 megs of HD space to give me those extra 3 megs. Needless to say, I removed it quickly since I only have 9 megs free anyways. Steve hasses@prism.cs.orst.edu Very annoying, but quite necessary. You need to have some place to swap OUT the memory you're replacing with the new memory... And therefore you need as much free space on the HD as you want in virtual memory, notwithstanding the amount of actual RAM you have. -=Alan -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alan D. Danziger, | 753 South St,Waltham MA 02154 | "Just sitting aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu | MB 3130 / Brandeis University | here, on the (617) 894-6859 or 647-3720 | PO Box 9110 Waltham MA 02254 | Group W Bench" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=