> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:17:04 -0400
> Subject: Re: A little weird "About this Mac..."
> From: Amber Rhea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I had one of my networked LC 575's crash while surfing today. An error
> > message suggesting I increase the RAM allotted to the NetNav 2.02 popped
> > up. I looked in :About this Macintosh" and found I had only about 4 MB
> > of RAM NOT used by the system files. That is 4 MB out of 20 MB of RAM I
> > have installed on this 575.
>
> Something like this happened on an LCIII I was working on a few weeks ago
> for a customer. It has 36MB RAM and system 7.1, and Netscape Gold 3.01. I
> kept getting "out of memory" errors when trying to start up Netscape. Same
> when I tried to start The Print Shop. I knew that couldn't be right. I went
> to 'About This Macintosh' and it said the system software was using 32MB!!!
> My jaw dropped. When I came to, I rebooted, and immediately checked ATM
> again. Back to normal - about 2MB devoted to the system. This seemed to be
> completely random...???
I've noticed similar memory management oddities on a couple of my Macs
using 7.1....I've gotten in the habit of installing RAM Doubler 2 and
setting it to the lowest possible setting without turning it off - no
more RAM problems.
Before that, I occasionally had similar RAM problems until I remembered
to check that 32-bit addressing was turned on - IIRC, a previous poster
mentioned having this turned of; though why anyone would do so is beyond me.
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