mudpit@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (dan quoidbach) (03/11/90)
Hello, I noticed something funny happening the other day. I tried to start Excel 1.04 and was told that there was not enought memory. I have a Mac+ with 2.5 meg and was running Multifinder 6.0.3 and System 6.0.2. I took a look at "about finder" and saw that the system file was over 1 meg. I thought that was rather big and toyed around with starting up other applications, closing others to get some room, and when I looked at "about finder" again I saw that the system file was growing. I rebooted and found the size of the system at startup to be 875K. I am running numerous cdevs and inits and as this was the first time I'd paid any attention to what the size of the system was I couldn't tell if this was big or not. But again I noticed that whenever I opened an application the system would grow by 2K. I thought I might have caught some virus even though I'm running Gatekeeper and Gatekeeper Aid and scan regularly with Disinfectant, so I ran disinfectant again (version 1.6). It didn't find any viruses but it did up the size of the system by 9K. I switched to using finder and the system didn't grow. I switched back to multifinder and removed all my inits and cdevs except for virus protection and the basic control panel stuff from Apple. On reboot the size of the system was down to 280 K but the damn thing kept on growing like before. Okay. That's my situation. My question is: Is this activity normal? If not is it likely to be due to a poorly written application or is this a virus that Disinfectant 1.6 and Gatekeeper (latest version I think) can't detect? I would appreciate all advice and help as my masters thesis will be a product of this machine. It's all backed up but I'll feel a lot better knowing what's going on. Prefer replies mailed to mudpit@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu as our news reception has gone to hell lately. Thanks a bunch in advance. --Dan Quoidbach