Q: Freeing 3 Megs RAM on a 4 Meg Mac?
John Addington
I have what may be a stupid question. I've always read in READMEs
and such that I, with my lowly 4 megs of RAM, should be able to free up
3000k. I've tried starting up without extensions - holding down *shift*
during start-up - but that only frees up around 2800k, maybe 2850.
I'm curious as to what else I might be able to do in order to squeeze
that last bit of RAM out of my brave but underpowered LC. I'm running
system 7.1, if that makes a difference. I've thought about removing fonts
and/or sounds, but my understanding is that they only load into RAM when
they need to, and therefore shouldn't make that big a difference. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
John
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Mike Fan
Addington <jad...@lclark.edu> wrote:
> I have what may be a stupid question. I've always read in READMEs
> and such that I, with my lowly 4 megs of RAM, should be able to free up
> 3000k. I've tried starting up without extensions - holding down *shift*
> during start-up - but that only frees up around 2800k, maybe 2850.
Before, I upgraded to 8 megs, I used to be able to get just over 3000k by
running with At Ease with no extensions on. At Ease, it seems, uses less
RAM than the Finder.
Mike
Ewen Cartwright - PPATH
cut-down system that comes on the Utilities disk. I've also heard that using At
Ease instead of the Finder also cuts down the RAM requirement.
-Ewen.
Charlemagne
mik...@azstarnet.com (Mike Fan) wrote:
There's another, more complicated way of freeing up more memory. At
least, with System 7.1. The theory is to quit the Finder, then reclaim
that lost memory. It's a little tricky, but if you follow these steps you
should be able to free up an extra 180-200K of ram.
You have to get your hands on a small program-launching program that
doesn't use the finder. I believe the shareware program FaberFinder is
the one I used. It can launch programs from an Open/Save dialog box, and
only uses up 20K of ram. Actually, you'll have to duplicate the program,
so you have two copies of it on your hard drive.
First, launch copy #1 of FaberFinder (or your equivalent). Then, quit the
Finder. There's a bunch of different programs/control panels that let you
do that. As a last resort, just force quit the Finder.
Now, a 200K block of memory is freed up, but the computer can't claim it,
because your first copy of the FaberFinder is taking up the space. There
are now two blocks of memory. The largest free block of memory will still
be the remaining 2-3 Megs, which is the "largest unused block of memory".
The only thing stopping the Mac from using that 200K of memory is that
single application you have running.
To get around that, use your running copy of FaberFinder to launch the
SECOND copy of FaberFinder. The second copy will load in the 200K space,
reducing the size of that small block to about 180K. Then quit the first
copy of FaberFinder you launched. Ta da! The Mac has one continuous
block of memory to use that is roughly 3 Megs, assuming you started up
with no extensions as well.
If any of this is unclear, let me know. I speak from experience in
stretching my memory to the limit, believe me.
,,,
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