At 11.45 PM +0100 3/5/02, Kim Gammelg�rd wrote: >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 ;-))
While this is true.... it's dynamic. An app can hog all available memory one moment, and nicely go into the background and release most of it's memory the next. It all depends on what the app is doing at the very moment that you're looking at `top'. -- Jeremy Derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Low End Macs - G-Books "ListNanny" Any statements herein represent my opinion and do not represent those of my employer. In fact, they don't even know that I know how to use a computer. They don't think very highly of me, it seems. At any rate, I'm probably just spouting off about things I couldn't likely comprehend, so please just ignore me. -- 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
