[CUBE] HELP!! cube acting up bad

[Marc Stergionis]

At about 3:30 PM -0800 on 3/3/03, J.C. Webber III wrote:
>Migrate to MacOSX.  Then the computer takes care of managing memory
>instead of making the user do it.
>
>-- jcw

Yes, the best idea of all.

Barring that, if Lacorona has the drive space, how about a clean 
install of OS9. That almost always works  wonders!

Or, run Disk Warrior etc.

Last ditch -- if Jaguar ain't in the cards -- wipe your disk and reinstall.

>Lacorona at aol.com wrote:
>>  I SWWEAR I have not added or subtracted anyting, but keep getting 
>>bounced off
>>  AOL and out of Microwoft Words files by error 2, 3, and 11. I had 
>>put in full
>  > 1.5 Gb memory about 3 months ago, had only 512. It's a PCG4cube 
>450Mz, OS9.1.

Another solution: Dump AOL and MS-anything :)

I assume (I think I came late to this thread) you have tried 
reseating RAM and/or removing all but one RAM stick, restart, then 
take that one out, put in the second one, restart, etc ... in order 
to test each of your three sticks of RAM singly? Bad RAM is rare, but 
it does exist!


>  >
>>  I went to look at memory and dang if it doesnt say (even though VM isturned
>>  on) that "too much memory to enable VM"
>>
>>  on my apple profiler, it shows vm as "off" even though it is checked 'on' in
>  > control panel for 'memory'

It appears that VM has a 1G limit. *Also* VM is built to give you a 
minimum of 1MB more of swap space than your total hardware memory. 
ie. if you have 512 megs or real RAM, VM must allocate 513MB (of disk 
space) or more for Virtual Memory.

So VM won't work in your case (under OS9) because it's supposed to 
give you at least 1,501 MB of VM, but *maximum* VM is 990 MB, or 1G. 
At least that's what the Memory CP says on my 8600.

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