[G4] Re: Big DIMMs

[Hal]

If you run Activity Monitor (in Applications/Utilities) and select 
"show activity monitor", you can see exactly how much memory each 
process is using. That's how you do it in Panther, I forget where it is 
in Jaguar.

Hope that helps.

-Hal

On Nov 17, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Nicolas Kinnan wrote:

>
> Thanks for the advice, so far.
>
> I was wondering about the 1.5GB limit, as I had remembered reading 
> somewhere that that was primarily an OS9 issue.  I know that allot of 
> RAM limits in the past were based less on CPU restrictions and more on 
> what the biggest chips were that could be used for testing prior to 
> product release.
>
> I suppose my dream right now, one of them anyway, is that some Apple 
> person reads this list and figures a cool Christmas gift to those of 
> us who can't afford a new computer right now would be a firmware 
> update enabling 1GB DIMMS in the G4.
>
> This would be especially nice as then, considering the aforementioned 
> 2GB limit, I could max out my RAM "something fierce" and also keep the 
> DIMM slot that is closer than I would like to the CPU heatsink empty.
>
> I'm still a little surprised that an even 1GB or RAM is no longer 
> considered unusual now -- I was kind of hoping that we'd rest at 512 
> or 768MB for a little while.  What happened to make things kind of 
> shoot up past 512, anyway?  Is OSX really eating up so much memory in 
> my machine?  Is there an easy way to check, like in the old OS9 days?
>
> A.
>
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