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Article #22867Re: Boot Blocks
From: Mark Francillon
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1987 16:49
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1987 16:49
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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 ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!moku
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!moku 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 Lines: 33