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From: moku@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Mark Francillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Boot Blocks
Summary: Fedit (and a further question)
Message-ID: <2932@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 87 16:49:00 GMT
References: <36343@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: moku@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Mark Francillon)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
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In article <36343@sun.uucp> chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>1) How can I find out what the System Heap numbers in the boot blocks are
>   set for?

There's a function in Fedit+ to do this.

>
>2) How can I change these numbers?

Fedit again.

>
>3) What should the numbers be for system release 5.0?
>
>The reason I ask is that I believe most of the glitchies I've seen since
>the upgrade to system 5.0 and multifinder are system heap exhaustion
>problems. I read somewhere that the heap grew again (implying that the boot
>block numbers got bigger) for Multifinder. But I can't find any program that
>reads the blocks or writes the blocks or any documentation on what they
>should be. 

Isn't system heap size allocated dynamically now (vs. the version of
Juggler leaked last summer).  And if this is so, does it matter any more
what's in the boot blocks?

>
>chuq

   Mark Francillon
   Dept. of Anthropology
   University of Chicago
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