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- From: mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: GS/OS System 5.0.4 vs System 6.0
- Message-ID: <mattd-140992121232@city-lights.apple.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 19:12:46 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.035534.13554@nuscc.nus.sg> <2AB18A3F.21046@ics.uci.edu> <uerics.716337389@mcl>
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- Organization: Developer Technical Support, Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <uerics.716337389@mcl>, uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
- wrote:
- >
- > I have a GS-RAM+ with 4Mb, and I get the "Finder needs at least xxxK to run"
- > message now and then. I think it's just some bizarre quirk in the system
- > software. :)
- >
- > - Eric S.
-
- I looked into this recently, and it appears the story is this:
-
- Finder tries to do these things:
-
- 1. Allocate its internal out-of-memory safety buffer
- 2. Start the Resource Manager
- 3. Open its own resource fork and read the entire map into memory
- 4. StartUpTools
-
- If _any_ of these fail, you get the "Finder needs xxxK" message. That
- means if a program is failing to shut down a tool properly that Finder
- now needs where it didn't before (like TextEdit, perhaps), you might
- see this message. I'm not 100% sure TLShutDown will avoid the problem
- of not shutting down RAM-based tools you started up.
-
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