[Use-revolution] Re: Revolution memory allocation Mac

[Ian Bridges]

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...

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