Out of memory message

Article View: demon.tech.mac

Article #1019

#1019

From: Peter Ceresole
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 00:00

20 lines
1251 bytes

Just out of curiosity, this one.

I was watching some chaps trying out a new PPC (I forget precisely which)
running Avid Media Composer v.7. OS is 8.1.

The machine has 220Mb of RAM. Media Composer was set at its recommended
192Mb. When they launched it, it ran okay, but then if they attempted to
use the Finder (for Simpletext I think), it complained that there was
insufficient memory. "About this Mac" showed the system using about 10Mb-
nothing like enough to cause trouble. There should have been 18Mb free over
and above that. 

What causes the Finder to do this kind of thing?

No more info; I confess that this Friday evening I was knackered beyond all
recognition... But I'm curious.  

-- 
Peter

Technical Details

Message-ID: <B19E35449668C2926@cara.demon.co.uk>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,27c5d06304802c0,start
X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public
From: peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole)
Subject: Out of memory message
Date: 1998/06/05
Message-ID: <B19E35449668C2926@cara.demon.co.uk>
X-Deja-AN: 359974641
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: cara.demon.co.uk:158.152.17.67
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 897087103 nnrp-02:24446 NO-IDENT cara.demon.co.uk:158.152.17.67
Organization: none
Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac