Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!sjhg9320 From: sjhg9320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Idiot Savant ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Virtual Memory problem Message-ID: <1991May20.053258.5286@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 May 91 05:32:58 GMT References: <29368@hydra.gatech.EDU> <13704@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991May19.042323.20895@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 20 ngo@tammy.harvard.edu (Tom Ngo) writes: >I find that I can get my VM up to 11 megs, but if I push it to 12 or >13 megs my system won't boot properly. Everything proceeds as usual, >but when the finder comes up the mouse remains frozen. I have had the same experience. Don't have the slightest idea what the problem is, but I fixed the symptoms by reformatting, restoring, and keeping the VM off. It seems as if the Finder gets trashed by alloting the buffer on the disk. >Now, the person to whose msg I am following up explained that with >24-bit addressing you can address up to 16M, minus 1M per NuBus card. The IIci also has a substantial amount of Memory in ROM. That adds to the total amount of memory present and subtracts from the amount of RAM available. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Internet: scott@scotty.life.uiuc.edu AppleLink: ISware ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~