Rev Classic Crashing

[Geoff Canyon]

At 12:34 AM -0500 4/13/02, Brad Allen wrote:
>>As a demonstration, set the allocation to the default (15,000) and run Revolution. Immediately switch to the Finder and select About This Computer on the Apple menu. You should see Revolution taking something in excess of 15,000 -- maybe 20,000 to 30,000, depending on circumstances. This is because Revolution (like many other apps on the Mac) allocates memory dynamically -- as dynamically as is possible on Mac OS 9.
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>Most other apps that use dynamic memory add to the system heap size. Rev's behavior is very unusual for a Mac app, at least in the way it increases its own RAM allocation rather than adding to the size of the system heap. I've never seen another Mac app do that.

I think the Mac is more accurate about reporting memory usage today than it once was. Here are some apps on my hard drive that seem to be taking more than I gave them:

AppleWorks
Eudora
Microsoft Word
Photoshop
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regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com