Re: sys 7 eating up tons of memory.

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From: Brian Kendig
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:57

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In article <74268@netnews.upenn.edu> pauls@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Richard J. Pauls) writes:
>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,

The RAM cache, settable via the Memory control panel, is often the
culprit in this situation.  Make sure it's not set to several megs
large!  For optimal performance, set the RAM cache to either 192k or
256k (or 384k on a IIsi running off internal video).

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