sys 7 eating up tons of memory.

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From: Richard J. Pauls
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:13

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I am running system 7 on a MacII ci.  Today I looked at the "about this
macintosh" pannel and saw that the system was using up 5.7 meg of memory,
and applications were not running due to lack of memory.  Virtual memory
was off, and 32bit addressing was off (although 12 meg of RAM is installed)
I have to keep it off when using Compact Pro, but this never caused a problem
before.  I was playing around with Word 5 and Matlab and Canvas 3.0 and 
cutting/pasting and printing huge postscript graphics at the time.  I quit
everything and restarted the computer several times and rebuilt the
desktop.  Still nearly 6 Meg was used by the system.

Then I turned 32 bit addressing on and restarted and it was fixed.
Only 1.6 meg used by the system.  What's going on?  Can the Tune Up 
program fix this?  Is ver 1.1.1 the latest, and does it finaly work?
Reports seem kind of so so.

Thanks a lot,

Rich

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