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- From: meekins@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tim Meekins)
- Subject: Re: GS/OS System 5.0.4 vs System 6.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.034436.17766@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: news@cis.ohio-state.edu (NETnews )
- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
- References: <2AB18A3F.21046@ics.uci.edu> <uerics.716337389@mcl> <mattd-140992121232@city-lights.apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:44:36 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <mattd-140992121232@city-lights.apple.com> mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
-
- Besides that, not having enough bank 0 memory will also generate out
- of memory errors regardless of how much free ram you have. Be sure
- you don't have too many inits/DAs/Finder Ext's, etc installed..
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