Re: RAM Allocation in OSX

[Shay Telfer]

Hi guys,

How does one increase the RAM allocation for a program running in 
system 10.3?  Or is it no longer needed?


Thanks,

Cal Conkey


It's no longer needed as under OS X each application thinks it has a 
*lot* of RAM available to it thanks to what's known as 'virtual 
memory'.


Of course, this means that you can run out of 'swap' space on disk as 
virtual memory is 'paged out' to disk when it's not in use. When this 
happens, bad things occur.


Have fun,
Shay (running with a 97% full disk :)
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Re: RAM Allocation in OSX

[Mark Secker]

some programs can have ram settings done within their own preferences.
Photoshop is the only example that I know of personally... and is a 
good idea (or so I've been told by a TAFE CG lecturer) to set it to 
about 75% of total memory - and can vouch for it significantly 
speeding up Photoshop and cutting back on it's scratch disk access. 
Though probably in this case Photoshop is creating something like 
it's own, hidden, RAM scratch disk rather than actually grabbing the 
memory for the application its self.




You've answered your own question quite correctly.

  regards
  Eugene

On 01/03/2005, at 11:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Hi guys,

 How does one increase the RAM allocation for a program running in 
system 10.3?  Or is it no longer needed?


 Thanks,

 Cal Conkey

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Re: RAM Allocation in OSX

[Eugene]

You've answered your own question quite correctly.

  regards
  Eugene

On 01/03/2005, at 11:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi guys,

How does one increase the RAM allocation for a program running in 
system 10.3?  Or is it no longer needed?


Thanks,

Cal Conkey

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RAM Allocation in OSX

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Hi guys,

How does one increase the RAM allocation for a program running in 
system 10.3?  Or is it no longer needed?


Thanks,

Cal Conkey