Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: re^4:what to buy??(numbercruncher) Message-ID: <50862@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 19 Jun 91 18:15:45 GMT References: Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 27 In article NJ_GOKEMEIJE@FANDM.BITNET writes: >BTW I saw a MAC SE/30 with 2 MEGS running system 7 with Virtual Memory. >What a joke! The system allocates 1.7 MEGS for itself, leaving 300 K for System 7 takes up 1 meg on my SE/30. Remember that in that System partition memory used included the cache (which in 7 is always on) and any memory used by inits. >applications. Starting SUPERPAINT allocates 1.2 MEGS for superpaint and >has to swap .9 MEGS to run it. Everytime you switch to the FINDER it swaps >again. Good thing it doesn't have real multitasking! What do you mean by "real" multitasking. If your program needed a lot of memory it would be swapping. (By the way, the default partition for SuperPaint 2.0 is 700k.) >Question: Since on a MAC you need to specify the size of an application >(in the INFO window) does it still give an out of memory error if it needs >more than that size, even with Virtual Memory? (That seems stupid) Yes. Virtual memory simply increases the total memory available, not how applications use it. (And yes, it'd be nice if it worked better.) >Do you still need to quit to change that size? (Even more stupid) Yes.