Re: FLASH: Flash: is: more Mac troubleshooting, and an apology was: Re:Flash crash

[Bill]

At 11:21 PM -0600 7/22/99, Frederico wrote:

> It is sound Macwisdom to quit applications in the reverse order in which

>they are launched, e.g., if you opened Flash4 first, Freehand second, and

>Dreamweaver last, and you no longer need all of them open, you should

>quit DW, then FH, then F4. Under no circumstances should you just quit

>either Flash or Freehand, leaving Dreamweaver open, and then launch

>another application. This will likely cause the RAM to be fragmented, and

>thus make any newly opened apps unstable. Repeated quitting and lunching

>out of order will eventually (six hours to several days) lead to a crash,

>sooner if the System is poorly maintained or configured, and/or depends

>heavily on Virtual Memory.


All good advice, Frederico. The memory leak, IMO, is the MacOSs 

biggest problem. I cringe when I forget and quit Photoshop out of 

order. The best way of getting memory (and stability) back is of 

course to restart. I have discovered that if my memory is badly 

fragmented and I quit the finder. There are a number of ways of doing 

this. I usually run DFA which also quits all background processes, I 

OFTEN get back all my memory, and it does not disconnect my ISP 

connection in my configuration. This saves me about 5 minutes of 

restarting and reconnecting to my ISP vs 30 sec to run DFA (keep your 

directories optimized with Diskwarrior and it runs MUCH faster).


Let's hope MOS 9 and certainly MOS X solve this problem.


Regards,


Bill Blank 


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