> on 1/5/03 4:57 PM, Philip Black at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> The "out of memory" error message in 8.6, and prior, rarely is an
[...]
> Alsoft has a free app named * list open files* . Open files include
many
> extensions, each font is one open file etc. Just booting Mac OS 8.6 can
> open well over 150 or more files.
> Mac OS 8.6 and below had a limit of 250 open files if I recall.
> So the poster who said many problems attributed to memory could have
been
> to many open files. Opening Explorer opens about a dozen files as does
m> any
> other apps. So one can easily exceed the limit with just a few apps
open.
> Mac OS 9 and has a much higher limit of open files. I do not know the
> number but someone will come up with it.
>
>
> David in WV
Back in the days of System 6, which had an even more stringent limit (I
forget what it was, but anyway...) there were utilities like Bootman (?)
that claimed to be able to increase the # of open files to some user-set
limit (at the cost of allocating more memory to the OS). Apparently the
limit was (is?) set on the boot blocks of the startup disk....
I wonder if that works in later OS versions? Or if there are any more
modern utilities that do that.
One can ameliorate the problem slightly in another way with respect to
fonts, by incorporating a number of fonts into 1 suitcase (each suitcase,
not font resource, counts as 1 file).
--
Over,
Jutso
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