Cmon Jerry, Mactown does that locally. Ward On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 12:23 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote:
> 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 >>>> > >>>> > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 5134 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021222/961542ee/attachment.bin
