Memory Limits (was Tiny images, mega headache)

[Dar Scott]

On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 12:19 AM, David Kwinter wrote:

> The images are 3,700 bytes. I've got 256mb ram. I notice my WinXP page  
> file
> balloons to 700MB before it stalls. On the Mac I just get the spinning
> lollipop of death.

I know you got a solution, but I wonder about people's experience with  
using lots of memory.

 From memory...

Revolution will lock up on my OS X when adding chars to a string at  
about a string length of 700MB.  However, if I create random strings,  
_both_ Revolution and Finder get a spinning icon and the other apps  
become very, very slow at a little over 500MB.  If I kill Revolution,  
the other apps speed up after a few minutes.  I didn't take time to  
explore these.

Dar
(My own memory is limited, so who am I to complain?)
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