In response to Larry and Linda's comments (for which thanks!) OSX; 10.4.8 PowerPC G5 ------ Hardware Overview: Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Machine Model: PowerMac9,1 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 768 MB Bus Speed: 600 MHz Boot ROM Version: 5.2.2f2 Serial Number: G84458N7QYU
------------ I have in System memory: wired: 92MB Active: 440 MB Inactive: 225 MB Used: 757 MB Free 9 MB (scarily low???) VM Size: 6.92 GB Page ins/outs 68262/13569 I have 7 apps open: Quark, e'rage, safari, dreamweaver, adobe photoshop, adobe acrobat, excel. What shall I do? Barbara > From: Larry Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:20 -0600 (CST) > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Not enough memory messages > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Barbara Hodge wrote: > >>> I have e'rage 11.3.3. On a G5 Tower Mac osX version 10.4.8. >>> >>> Microsoft Office 2004 >>> >>> In e'rage I am getting "cannot complete action - not enough memory" >> Messages - where and how can I increase the memory available to e'rage? > > OS X is a virtual memory operating system (behind the scenes it is Unix). > Consequently, the memory available to a program is virtually unlimited. > Physical memory is "extended" by swapping memory out to disk. Therefore, > free disk space becomes very important. How much space is free on your > startup disk? However much is free is basically your limit on how much > virtual memory you have. So If you only only have 1GB free, you only have > 1GB available in addition to the amount of physical memory you have. > > The advantage of more physical memory is physical memory is very fast > compared to using the disk as virtual memory. Disk reads and writes are > relatively very slow so having more physical speed things up by reducing > the virtual memory disk accessed. > > -- Larry Stone > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
