Memory

The Tilery will warn you if memory gets low; if you see the warning, you should quit The Tilery and give it a bigger partition (use the Finder’s Get Info command to set the memory size). You can also monitor The Tilery’s memory usage by âŒ˜-clicking its tile and looking at the second menu item from the bottom: it will say something like “85K Free...” to tell you how much free memory The Tilery has available. (Selecting that menu item will give you more information about The Tilery’s memory usage. You can do the same thing for any other open application, too.)

A utility like The Tilery shouldn’t use up any more of your precious memory than it needs. Unfortunately, The Tilery’s memory needs vary greatly depending on whether you have color, what size tiles you use, how many tiles you usually have showing at a time, and other considerations. The suggested memory size (which is set at the factory, and which varies depending on your system setup) is enough for most people to run The Tilery the first time, check out the on-line help, and set preferences. After that, you may want to shut down The Tilery and change its memory partition. Usually about 30K free is a good setting.

If you use QuicKeys or other INITs which like to borrow application memory, you may have to give The Tilery extra memory. See the chapter on Conflicts.

See Memory under The Tilery’s Help menu for more info.