[P1] new ibooks... any better re warping & screen marks??

[Jack Rodgers]

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 02:49  PM, Tom R. no spam wrote:

> OS9:  Miimum virtual memory setting is 1MB greater than physical
> RAM.

True, however you can set VM to much higher amounts, double or triple 
the amount of RAM. I am not sure the exact limits so the previous 
sentence should be given some slack.

VM is meant to compensate for low installed RAM. You will find if you 
can max out your Ram you can do away with the VM and run faster since 
it takes time to read and write VM to disk.

The best improvement in OS 9 is to max out your ram and turn vm off and 
then increase the amount of RAM devoted to an application. Let's say 
the default is 10 Megs. With that allotment the application will drag 
and even freeze at times. Increase your physical RAM and boost that get 
info assignment to 30 Megs and watch your application run faster 
smoother and happier. A similar boost occurs with OS X when you move up 
from 128 Megs of installed RAM to more that 500. OS X does not run well 
with minimal ram. [This is based on results I obtained before X shipped 
and in the intervening years things may have changed.]

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