>Scolman,Jim on 12/21/00 12:54 PM wrote:
>
>> Good morning All, as a new Duo 2300c owner I have been reading and learning
>> about battery and RAM saving schemes. My system is OS 8.1, 56MB of real
>> RAM, VM set to 26MB for a total of 82MB RAM, cache set to 3584K and no ram
>> disk. I very carefully went through all of my extensions and control
>> panels, turning off all that I did not need, this resulted in a
>> Mac OS "load" of 11.6 MB, as reported in About This Computer. I then turned
>> ON ALL of the extensions and control panaels, except those that I did not
>> have hardware for, printers, GV Modems, etc. ....I did not turn off very
>> many....this resulted in a Mac OS "load" of 11.4 MB, for a savings of
>> 1.7%......so my question is, where is the power(battery) and RAM savings in
>> turning off extensions and CP's ?, at the loss of some functionality. Happy
>> holidays.......JWS.
>
>Strange that your system uses less memory when everything is on vs. a
>trimmed down system.
>
>Did you run any speed tests to see if there was any performance loss/gain?
>
>How about trying it with and without VM on.
>
>-makmac
>--
>Mark A. Kippert
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Off or on doesn't make any difference,
they are still in your system folder taking up space!
If you want to cut down the amount of Ram that your system uses,
you must *remove* the control panels and extensions from the system folder.
I usually just throw the ones I know that I don't need in the trash but if
you aren't sure you can remove them from the system folder and just put
them into a
new folder anywhere else on your drive.
Try taking all of those extensions and CP's that you had shut off and move
them,
then restart your Duo and check again.
Aloha, Ken
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