re my previous post and some of the replies... > > The Mac OS allocates a fixed amount of memory to each application. If an > application requires additional memory, it can make a system call to > request temporary memory for itself, over and above the application's > assigned allocation. This temporary memory appears in the Finder's "About > This Computer" window, and in other utilities that display memory use, as > part of the application's assigned allocation.
The only app I had seen do this in the past that I had noticed was the Finder & I thought that was a special case. Installed RAM is a non issue with 300+ megs on board, so I can allocate plenty to Rev if needs be. I do find it curious tho, that no other app I use does this as far as I can tell - all of them give low memory or out of memory warnings when stressed (which is why I always allocate at least 10Mb more to the preferred size), so it looks like they don't use this mechanism, which does make me wonder why - is there a stability issue with doing this? All of my Rev stability issues seem to be Type 2 errors which I believe are memory related, so could this be part of the cause? I'll try Rev with a 100Mb allocation and see how I go... Do standalones created with Rev allocate more RAM like this too? If you think this is going a bit OT reply to me off list. Ian B
