Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!LEAR.STANFORD.EDU!G.GUTOW From: G.GUTOW@LEAR.STANFORD.EDU (Jonathan Gutow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Why does the system heap grow with multifinder and System 4.2?... Message-ID: <12422786824.175.G.GUTOW@LEAR.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 88 04:06:08 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 18 I'm using system 4.2 and multifinder on an old mac upgraded with the 128K ROMs and an 800K disk drive. I've noticed that initially on switch launching to multifinder the system heap takes up about 252K of memory. After I've started and quit afew applications such as RedRyder and WriteNow(1.07 patched for multifinder) the heap size gains about 100K. It seems to me that when you are back to a minimal configuration of running the finder and the system the system heap size should collapse back down to its original size. Is this something that has changed with the newer system versions? Is there something I might be doing that is causing this. It's quite annoying having to restart the system to be able to run certain combinations of software. Oh yeah, I forgot, I have a MacSnap memory upgrade to 1mb. Jon Gutow Gutow@bacall.stanford.edu or Gutow%bacall@stanford.bitnet -------