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

[Virgil Vergara]

> Hello Frederico and others,

> 

> I too had some serious memory leak problems with the Mac and 8.6. However,

> I think I may have solved it by running Ram Doubler 8 with Filemapping

> turned on. I've also heard you can set Virtual memory on at one meg over

> the installed memory but I prefered using Ram Doubler and it doesn't use up

> valuable harddrive space.

>

> My main problem was with Photoshop running with Illustrator 8 and it keeps

> telling me that I can't save my file because too many windows are open.

> Yikes! Somehow and hopefully Ram Doubler will prevent that from happening.

>

>

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>

> Virgil

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On 7/23/1999 8:27 AM, Bill via bill501mindspring [dot] com, said:

>

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

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

>>order.

>

> I found that OS8.6 finally cured most of its own leaks, and only the

> crummy apps like Netscape tend to hang on to their own memory. PS is

> fair, IME, depending on what you did while it was open. Flash is never a

> problem releasing all it grabs, at least on the first few quits.

>

>>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.

>

> I should have pointed this out, as I do this myself via System hacks, but

> I find it confuses the Macnovice to know when and where and how this is

> safely done.

>

>  >There are a number of ways of doing

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

>

> This being perhaps the safest way, and I'm glad you took a moment to

> suggest it, sorry that I failed to.

>

>>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).

>

> It's all about productivity, isn't it?  (:

>

> The drag of having a machine that is chock full o' RAM and lots of drives

> and multiple monitors is the dramatic increase in boot time. Ever strip

> all your drives out except one and boot with just one 4-16MB RAM module

> and minimal config? It's like coming out of sleep mode. Scary. Hopefully

> the G4 will behave more like that. (:

>>

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

>

> Well, you didn't hear me say it, but they do go  a *LONG* way closer to

> what you're asking for, and are distinctly "Flash-Friendly".  (;

>

>

> Frederico

>

> ~If we all did the things we are capable of doing,

>     we would literally astound ourselves.~

>

>              --Thomas A. Edison

>

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