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From: samuels@nosc.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: LARGE System 7 memory usage
Message-ID: <2042@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 12 Jun 91 15:43:47 GMT
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A curious problem related to me over the phone: 
a friend has System 7 installed and when he looks at 
System memory usage (in 'About This Macintosh), the 
System is using 5.8 MB of RAM!!

He has a IIci.  I had him check the 'Memory' cdev (whoops)
and VM is off, 32-bit is off, disk cache = 384 (the default
for his machine, I think).  He has 12 MB RAM installed -
4 1MB SIMMs, 4 2MB SIMMs.  He has
a Radius Color Pivot (with a Pivot card) and a FastCache card (64 K).

The only INITs (sigh, extensions) he's using is some Radius INIT
for their tear-off menus, etc., and a FastCache INIT. (There may
have been one or two others, but none unusual - I didn't even 
memorize which ones they were, they sounded so 'ordinary').  Oh, 
and he has a DeskWriter, probably uses the HP fonts, if that
statement makes sense (I know zip about the DeskWriter, and its fonts,
etc.)

Any idea why System RAM usage may be so high?  Despite his
nifty hardware, my friend is sort of a Mac neophyte;  
I can't see anything he's running that would cause this, unless the
INITs I mentioned above are part of it.

This is a weird one;  I know there's limited information available here
(I haven't even examined the setup myself, just got a phone report) - 
any takers?

Larry Samuels
samuels@nosc.mil