Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!pyramid!voder!apple!lsr From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Boot Blocks Message-ID: <6988@apple.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 87 18:34:27 GMT References: <36343@sun.uucp> <6983@apple.UUCP> Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer Lines: 22 In article <6983@apple.UUCP> goldman@apple.UUCP (Phil Goldman) writes: > >INIT 31 will guarantee that there is some minimum amount of memory free in the >system heap (16k currently, I believe) before the startup application is >launched and the system heap is resized dynamically under MultiFinder. Also, INIT files can contain a resource of type 'sysz' id 0, to indicate the amt of system heap they need. The INIT 31 mechanism will grow the system heap accordingly. The resource contains 4 bytes with the amount of system heap required. I know of one instance where adding such a resource solved a boot-time crash (ID = 25).& -- Larry Rosenstein Object Specialist Apple Computer AppleLink: Rosenstein1 UUCP: {sun, voder, nsc, mtxinu, dual}!apple!lsr CSNET: lsr@Apple.com