At 3:12 PM -0500 8/29/01, Curry Kenworthy wrote:
>Hmm, maybe it's just me. My iMac is 266 Mhz and the physical RAM is 32M.
!!! I'd say that's the problem right there. The underlying engine can operate using as
little as a few megabytes of RAM. But depending on the project it is running it will
happily grab as much as it needs. The Revolution development environment demonstrates
this very well. I often see it grab as much as 20 megabytes of extra RAM as it runs.
This doesn't mean that the projects you create will be as greedy, and you can
specifically engineer your projects to run lean. But the fact remains that the Rev
development environment itself needs room to run.
A related issue I see on a PowerBook with 128MB of physical RAM is that when the
system runs low on RAM, updates to the Mac's desktop picture can be painfully slow.
When this happens, I generally quit, quit a few other apps, and go in again.
regards,
gc
