on 12/22/00 12:58 AM, Greg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ......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.
>>
>> Jim Scolman
>
> I have experienced the same thing you are talking about. The RAM savings
> of turning off extensions does NOT apply with all extensions, just with
> some. For instance, if I turn off Speed Doubler (includes a control
> panel and extension) it will save about 1 Mb of ram. I will guess there
> could be similar results with some other third party extensions. I will
> also add that the old "turn OFF unused extensions" mantra is largely a
> carry over from earlier days of the Mac OS but does not work the same
> with OS8.x.
>
BTW, Conflict Catcher will give you a report of exactly how much RAM each
thing is taking, so you can target just those items which are hogging the
most RAM.
- Eric.
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