On 11/16/04 12:33 PM, Bryan R Harris deftly typed out:

> I heard that 500MB was the magic number for RAM, that you'd get a
> significant performance boost having more than that number.

I wouldn't run OS X on less than 512MB of RAM.

>> Some apps will leak and can cause the type of problem you describe. Just
>> keep a watch out for that.
> 
> Note, leaky apps won't bring down the system or affect other apps, they just
> use more and more RAM until they crash.

If an app consumes more and more RAM it will cause memory to be swapped more
which *will* affect the performance of the OS and other apps.

-Remo Del Bello 

-- 
"Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak."
- 5th most commonly uttered Klingon programmer phrase


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