[Use-revolution] Re: Revolution memory allocation Mac

[andu]

Ian Bridges wrote:
> 
> re my previous post and some of the replies...
> 
> >
> > The Mac OS allocates a fixed amount of memory to each application. If an
> > application requires additional memory, it can make a system call to
> > request temporary memory for itself, over and above the application's
> > assigned allocation. This temporary memory appears in the Finder's "About
> > This Computer" window, and in other utilities that display memory use, as
> > part of the application's assigned allocation.
> 
> The only app I had seen do this in the past that I had noticed was the
> Finder & I thought that was a special case.
> 
> Installed RAM is a non issue with 300+ megs on board, so I can allocate
> plenty to Rev if needs be. I do find it curious tho, that no other app I use
> does this as far as I can tell - all of them give low memory or out of
> memory warnings when stressed (which is why I always allocate at least 10Mb
> more to the preferred size), so it looks like they don't use this mechanism,
> which does make me wonder why - is there a stability issue with doing this?
> 
> All of my Rev stability issues seem to be Type 2 errors which I believe are
> memory related, so could this be part of the cause? I'll try Rev with a
> 100Mb allocation and see how I go...

I don't think increasing the ram is gonna do it. Can you reproduce the
crushes?

> 
> Do standalones created with Rev allocate more RAM like this too?
> 
> If you think this is going a bit OT reply to me off list.
> 
> Ian B
Andu