turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) (10/05/89)
I just bought a new hard disk (Jasmine, 40Mb) which came with a new version of system (6.0.1) and finder (6.2). In customizing my hard disk, I removed several fonts and one or two DA's from my system. Surprisingly, the amount of memory consumed by system when I click on "About finder" did not change. Why is this? What's the point of removing fonts and DA's if the system continues to consume the same amount of memory when loaded? What can I do to get this space back? Russell
levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (10/05/89)
Fonts and DAs are not loaded into RAM until they are actually used; so whether they are in the System file or not, they don't affect the amount of memory used (as shown in "about Finder") until you call for them. If you are not running under MultiFinder, they will never affect this amount of memory (unless they explicitly do something which uses the system heap). Under MultiFinder, fonts and DAs are normally loaded into the system heap, but when they are no longer in use, the space they occupied MAY be reclaimed. /JBL