kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) (09/28/88)
I have a Mac II system with a Mac OS (only) disk and an A/UX disk. I used to be able to run the A/UX boot program (SASH) from the Mac disk. However I just updated the OS to version 6.0.2, and now when I try to boot I get the messages "Application base too high" and "system heap is too big". How do I reduce the system heap size in 6.0.2, but still have a running system? Under 6.0 the heap was on the order of 275K, under 6.0.2 it is 375K more or less, depending on whether caching is on (and whether or not I am running the "fish" background). Eliminating everything optional, I still only get down to 320K, which is still too big. As a stopgap, I have configured a MINIMAL (no fonts extra, no inits, no nothing) system file in the MacOS partion of the A/UX disk. If I reboot to that as the startup, I can launch A/UX. However, that is not a wholly satisfactory solution. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)