At 12:34 AM -0500 4/13/02, Brad Allen wrote: >>As a demonstration, set the allocation to the default (15,000) and run Revolution. >Immediately switch to the Finder and select About This Computer on the Apple menu. >You should see Revolution taking something in excess of 15,000 -- maybe 20,000 to >30,000, depending on circumstances. This is because Revolution (like many other apps >on the Mac) allocates memory dynamically -- as dynamically as is possible on Mac OS 9. > >Most other apps that use dynamic memory add to the system heap size. Rev's behavior >is very unusual for a Mac app, at least in the way it increases its own RAM >allocation rather than adding to the size of the system heap. I've never seen another >Mac app do that.
I think the Mac is more accurate about reporting memory usage today than it once was. Here are some apps on my hard drive that seem to be taking more than I gave them: AppleWorks Eudora Microsoft Word Photoshop -- regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
