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Re: Help please

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From: ric
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:00
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Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar>
wrote:

> This isn't a very good idea on PowerMacs - the standard advice (assuming
> that it's not changed with the newer OSs) is, rather than turn VM off,
> set it to 1MB above the amount of real RAM you've got.  This is because
> memory management is more efficient with VM on.
> 
> > and allocating more memory to the
> > apps concerned.
> 
> This might well help - you'll have to do it if you turn VM off, because
> PowerMac applications need more RAM if VM is turned off.

The OS does this automatically.


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Date: 1998/02/22
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