That is not the whole truth, Shawn. As long as you have the hard drive space, no problem, but if you run out of that you may be in big trouble, like I got into recently, as I was trying to print 30 pages on my HP 970 Cxi. It simply ate 30-50 MB per page it was printing and suddently it just sat there for an hour doing nothing because of no more Memory. If I had know that it had eaten 500 MB+ I would have killed it beforehand!
It actually killed my file system, giving me an PEOF error when I finally got it booted back (into 9 as X didn't work...) and checking the drive with Disk Repair. The only thing that saved my butt was Disk Warrior (as it has before). I recreated the scenario to learn from it, and used top in the Terminal to view the Memory hog that the printing software(PrintJobMg) apparently is. Well and this may answer the question: you can use top in the terminal to view how much each app is using (kinda, at least ;-)) Cheers, Kim tirsdag marts 5 2002 kl. 06:59 skrev Shawn King: >> And ... in OSX, how do you get it to tell you what apps are using up what >> RAM while open? "About this computer" told me only what processor >> and how much RAM total. > > Because in OS X, that is no longer an issue. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Mac OS SW, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
