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From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Any way to determine init memory usage?
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Date: 3 Oct 89 20:17:36 GMT
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  A simple question.  Is they any definitive way to determine the memory usage
for each init that you have?  I have I guess a decent amount of inits that
run (Broadcast, Vaccine, AppleShare, ColorFinder, Tops, to name a few) on a
IIx, and even with a 128k ram cache, the amount of memory used by the System
(as reported by About Finder) is over 1400k.  I know Tops uses a fair amount
(100k-150k I think), but that still leaves a lot unaccounted for.  Stuff like
the recently posted Public Folder init/rdev are nice to have, and while I'd 
prefer to keep it available all the time, if you don't use it that much, I 
don't know if I would want to allocate 10k, 20k, 50k, who knows how much ram.
  I know IBM TSR programs (which I guess are sort of equivelent to Mac init's)
always listed the amount of ram they used (in their docs), besides having
utility programs which mapped out the amount and location of ram for each.  I
would think a similar thing for Mac's would be very useful.

						Jeff White
						University of Pennsylvania
						jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu