I will increase the memory and see how this works. The 50MB ram is about 20MB more than the Mac specs say are required. I will probably increase to 75 or 100MB. For those of you that don't use Macs, on the classic OS we have to assign a certain amount of memory to programs. Virtual memory just lets me tell the Mac I have 990MB RAM when in actuality I only have 512MB. Hopefully, I will be upgrading to Mac OS X soon. It treats memory in much the same way as a PC.
Matt Coughlin wrote: >>> In case you need it these are my system specs. >>> >>> Powermac G4 500MHz >>> 512MB RAM >>> Mac OS 9.22 >>> 50MB RAM allocated to Mozilla >>> Virtual Memory is turned off. >>> >> >> I am not exactly sure what these stats mean, but if you mean there is >> a hard limit of 50MB on the memory available to Mozilla than I am >> vaguely surprised that Moz doesn't regularly crash... > > > I'm not familiar with Macs either (I'm guessing that Virtual Memory is > basically a swap file). > > I think the basic question is this: does Mozilla need to have more than > 50 MB of total memory available (physical memory plus virtual memory), > or is this behavior a possible bug in the Mac version of Mozilla? > > If Mozilla needs more than 50 MB of total memory (on occasion), then > it's perfectly reasonable to expect it to not work sometimes if it > doesn't have that much available. Two things to try: allocate more > physical memory to Mozilla and/or allow virtual memory to be used. > > Virtual memory allows the program to still work (albeit slowly at times) > where otherwise it would crash, freeze, or fail in some way due to > insufficent memory. If the problem remains after greatly increasing the > amount of total memory available (including any virtual memory available > ), then that suggests a possible bug. > > I'm not familiar with the memory requirements of Mozilla, but I'd be > pretty surprised if it never requires more than 50 MB of total memory - > at least when a user has multiple browser, composer, or mail windows open. >
