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From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: SE/30 VM trouble in System 7
Message-ID: <53439@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 May 91 13:53:43 GMT
References: <2842d41f.4648@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> <1991May29.125650.16389@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu>
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gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu writes:

>In article <2842d41f.4648@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>, mjohnson@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark S. Johnson) writes:
>>
>>I'm running the release System 7 with no inits on a 5 Meg SE/30 with
>>an Apple internal 40 Meg HD. When I turn on VM with the default
>>settings and then reboot, "About This Macintosh" says:

>[stuff about how 5MB of VM eats 10MB of disk space]

>Yep, that's the way it is.  2 MB of VM eats up 4 MB on my HD.  

No.  VM uses 1 MB of hard disk for each MB of memory, with ALL memory
counting towards the total.  If you ask for 15 MB of memory, then VM
takes up 15 MB of disk space, no matter how much RAM is in your
computer.  If you specify 12 MB on an 8 MB RAM SE/30, you create a 12 MB
invisible file called "VM Storage".

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"