MCE Technologies
http://www.mcetech.com/ will get you to the front page and
http://www.mcetech.com/products.html will get you to the upgrades
page. They also offer solutions for iBooks and iMacs as well.
Jerry
On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 10:41 AM, Ward Oldham wrote:
> Who's MCE?
>
> Ward
>
> On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 10:34 AM, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>> That is what your critter is wanting to use, so if you take the space
>> away, it thinks the world has suddenly tilted. I think MCE will swap
>> your old drive out for a newer, bigger one (mirroring the data that
>> is currently on the old onto the new one, and if you want also swap
>> the DVD/CD for a DVD/CD-Burner) all for a fee of course.
>>
>> I must beg your pardon. I based my typings on Terminal from some of
>> the comments that I have received from folks that never used a
>> command line before...
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 09:33 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
>>
>>> Jerry:
>>>
>>> Here's what I get when I type "top" in the terminal (by the way, I'm
>>> not the guy that hates the terminal; I think that's Ward -- I'm just
>>> purely ignorant of it):
>>>
>>> MemRegions: num = 4998, resident = 92.9M + 13.8M private, ?110M
>>> shared
>>> PhysMem: ?46.9M wired, ?108M active, ?275M inactive, ?429M used,
>>> 82.7M free
>>> VM: 1.89G + 3.62M ??13087(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts ???
>>>
>>> No pageouts, so I guess that's good. Right now I have 652 MB of free
>>> space on my hard drive.
>>>
>>> So what does all this tell you about my system? Is it really using
>>> 1.89 GB of virtual memory?
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> >Yup, you found it. OS-X does use virtual memory via the hard drive.
>>> >When you start up it looks at how much physical RAM you have,
>>> >how much free hard drive space you have available and then
>>> >through some arcane formula previously known only to alchemists
>>> >decides on how much hard drive to set aside as virtual memory.
>>> >
>>> >I know you hate the Terminal, but humor me this once... (smile)
>>> >open Terminal and type the command:
>>> >
>>> >top
>>> >
>>> >then hit return
>>> >
>>> >toward the top of the page get back you might see something
>>> >like:
>>> >
>>> >MemRegions: num = 3220, resident = 60.7M + 9.20M private, 76.5M
>>> shared
>>> >PhysMem: ?43.0M wired, 92.8M active, ?177M inactive, ?313M used,
>>> ?303M free
>>> >VM: 2.61G + 63.9M ??9907(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts ???
>>> >
>>> >This is the virtual memory amount that has been set aside. if
>>> >for some reason, drive space is low, OS-X gets very cranky. (I
>>> >guess the alchemists didn't think about how cranky a machine
>>> >can get, sicne this was also the dawning of logical
>>> >positivism).
>>> >
>>> >Side note: If you see the pageouts number getting big, that
>>> >means your system is, well, under stress as it is saving memory
>>> >segments out to the drive (another reason why you want to use
>>> >the shutdown option rather than turning the machine off !!)
>>> >
>>> > Jerry
>>> >
>>> >On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 12:17 ?AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >I'm still trying to figure out my recent problems with X (which
>>> >were cured eventually by a reinstall) and I may have found a
>>> >clue. I again experienced some of the same symptoms, though not
>>> >nearly so bad this time. And it happened in a situation very
>>> >similar to the one a few days ago.
>>> >
>>> >There are at least two factors that were the same on both
>>> >occasions: I had booted into OS 9 and I had performed an
>>> >operation that created large files that nearly filled up my
>>> >hard drive. When I tried to boot back into X (this time 2.1.3),
>>> >I found that my desktop was unstable. The icons and the date
>>> >and time on the right side of the menu bar were flashing on and
>>> >off; my desktop icons had resized themselves to the default
>>> >size (I had set them at 32x32) and the dock had returned to its
>>> >default size and it was no longer hidden.
>>> >
>>> >Before the operation that nearly filled up my hard drive
>>> >(postscripting some Quark pages that had large graphic links),
>>> >I had about 1.0 GB of free space (on an 18.6 GB drive). After
>>> >creating the new files I had about 135 MB of space left. This
>>> >was the case each time that I encountered the problem.
>>> >
>>> >This time my system seemed to work more or less normally with
>>> >the exception of the weird desktop stuff mentioned above, so I
>>> >immediately deleted about 500 MB worth of files -- and
>>> >immediately after doing so, my date, time and menu bar icons
>>> >reappeared and no longer flashed on and off. I reset my icons
>>> >and dock to their previous settings and restarted, and
>>> >everything seems to be working fine now.
>>> >
>>> >It appears that, on my system at least, OS X gets real cranky
>>> >when I don't leave it plenty of hard drive space to play with.
>>> >Any idea why that might be the case? X doesn't have a virtual
>>> >memory setting like previous versions did, but I'm wondering if
>>> >it doesn't reserve some hard drive space for use as virtual
>>> >memory. I have 512 MB of RAM, if that makes any difference.
>>> >
>>> >Any thoughts on this?
>>> >
>>> >Dan
>>> >
>>> >
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