>> I maxed out the memory on my 8500 tonight, going from 608 megs to 1 gig. Now
>> the memory control panel says I have too much memory to enable virtual
>> memory (which I had on for file-mapping), so I have lost a large chunk of
>> what I gained! Any work-arounds?
>> Cheryl
on 4/27/04 3:30 PM, David Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sagely penned:
> How much free disk space do you have on your boot drive?
David, 1 gig, but that wasn't the problem, some kind of limitation in OS 9.
But I was able to work around it, see below.
on 4/27/04 3:30 PM, Joshua Yeidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sagely penned:
> I think you'll find you haven't "lost a large chunk of what [you] gained,"
> if you figure out how to best use what you have.
Joshua, you are right. Following some advice from a friend I was able to
re-enable virtual memory by creating a 35 meg RAM disk. Then I tested by
opening the deadly quartet (which used to bring my Mac to its knees):
Entourage, GoLive, Explorer and Photoshop. Surprisingly enough, with virtual
memory I had 380 megs left, without--371megs left.
> Since RAM is several orders of magnitude faster than disk ("virtual
> memory"), it makes good sense to turn virtual memory off and, as much as
> possible, let information reside in the faster RAM storage, rather than
> swapping it out to disk.
This is a factor I had forgotten, simply because I never could afford to run
without virtual memory before.
> You also have plenty of memory for a RAM disk, so instead of mirroring
> memory on disk (from faster to slower), you can mirror disk in memory (from
> slower to faster!) Put your all-day apps in the RAM disk, and your system
> will feed snappier.
> (But resist the temptation to put _any_ written-to files in the RAM disk...
> or you will surely have an unexpected power outage <lopsided grin>.)
I've tried the RAM disk tricks, maybe I'll try again, but it never impressed
me as being worth the trouble. Also some of my applications need to be in
same folder with their "accessories." And the whole application folders are
just too hefty for any reasonably sized RAM disk.
Thanks so much for your replies.
Cheryl
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