umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (08/04/90)
In article <909@sppy00.UUCP>, glf@sppy00.UUCP (HILL GREGORY L.) writes: > A few weeks ago, during all the talk about having a System Heap size big > enough to have 25% free space in it, someone posted a way to increase the > System Heap size by using SUM II TOOLS. > > I decided to give it a try. (Running MultiFinder) I opened the About > Finder dialog and saw ... (with the [ ] as the box, the ||| as the dark, > filled in part and the :: as the empty > [available] part) > Finder 6.1 > System 6.0.3 > Total Memory 2,560K Largest Unused Block: 1,536K > Finder: 160K [||||||:::] > System: 864K [||||||||||||||||||||||||:] > > Hmm, says I. Doesn't look like 25% to me. So, I open SUM TOOLS, Edit > Volume Boot Blocks, change System Heap size[512K] from about 168000 (I think > that's what it was) to 300000 (after several attempts), Write Boot Blocks, > Quit and ReStart. > > Now I look and About Finder and see ... > > Total Memory 2,560K Largest Unused Block: 1,533K > Finder: 160K [||||||:::] > System: 867K [|||||||||||||||||||||||||] > ^ > WHAT? System usage is up only 3K, *AND* now the box is more filled in > that before! > > I'll admit to being a bit novice in all this. Since System size is > showing 867K and Heap size is set to only 200K, does that mean that the system > is pre-allocated the 200K and the other 667K are being allocated on the fly? > (And that's why there's never any space left over ... it's getting only as > much as it needs.) If that's so, does that mean that if I want 25% more than > the 867K that I need to change Heap size to 1 MEG?!? > > I've got a standard Mac Plus and have about 10 INITS ... very standard, stable > stuff from little things like Safe Eject to ATM and Type Align. > > Any help or info greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Greg > -- MultiFinder does it's own memory management after it's kicked in, ignoring that field. What it's necessary for is in Finder. To check out how things change when you do those changes in SUM, use Finder. You only need to change the system heap size for multifinder use if you have lots of INITs cause those are loaded in the "Finder" stage of a boot before Multifinder and can chew up all the sy stem heap. Maynard Handley
ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet (10/28/90)
Is there any way to make it so that one cannot easily change the name of a hard disk? The disk needs to be _used_ so I cannot simply lock it. Is there something with ResEdit, or MacSnoop or anything like that in which one could disable to renaming capability? Thanks, Kevin Bolduan KSBOLDUAN@AMHERST
ury@shum.huji.ac.il (ury segal) (04/14/91)
Subject:Can't restart. Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: ury@shum.huji.ac.il (ury segal) Organization: Hebrew U. Jerusalem, Israel Date: Sun, 14 Apr 91 14:48:15 GMT Lines: 7 I put some new INIT's in my system folder. since then i can't restart the mac neither from a floppy nor the disk (system errors). any help ? --ury
bmueller@mis.mcw.edu (06/10/91)
Could anyone tell me why my SCSI Probe 3.0.1 takes the form of a generic document icon (folded over at edge)? I am running System 7.0 and accidentally destroyed my desktop DF. After rebuilding the desktop things came back to normal, but I noticed this generic document icon when I went to access SCSI Probe. I removed it from the desktop, rebuilt the deskdtop, reinstalled it, and everything was fine. When I started up again, the generic doc. icon was there (and this happened several times). Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Bob Mueller. P.S. All my other icons are just fine...only SCSI Probe has this problem. Since I just downloaded it last night, I don't know if this version is faulty, or if I am at fault.
francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) (06/10/91)
In article <1991Jun9.122433.67@mis.mcw.edu> bmueller@mis.mcw.edu writes: Could anyone tell me why my SCSI Probe 3.0.1 takes the form of a generic document icon (folded over at edge)? I am running System I've noticed the same thing with a lot of my DAs: when I first set up 7.0, they all had their icons; but they were lost almost immediately. Anybody know why? -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \============================================================================/