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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New Finder LAYO features
Keywords: Finder LAYO
Message-ID: <2975@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 88 19:16:37 GMT
References: <351@dcc1.UUCP> <4669@husc6.harvard.edu> <517@sas.UUCP>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <517@sas.UUCP> cole@sas.UUCP (Tom Cole) writes:
>I got the same result, upping the SIZE -1 resource memory allocation for
>the Finder application to 512000 solved the problem again - so it seems
>that Finder (6.0 at least) is allocating lots o' memory based on this
>value.  I set it back to 0 and could return the Finder to its original
>value.

  From talking to some people that should know: {i.e. this is hersay}

  The finger allocates it's maximum number of window records right away to 
avoid fragmenting the heap.  So even if you don't have all the windows open
the finder has already allocated the space for them.  This is an interesting
technique to avoid some memory allocation problems.  So when you up the size
of the number of windows, it makes sense to up the memeory requirements.



-- 
David M. O'Rourke

Disclaimer: I don't represent the school.  All opinions are mine!