[G4] How much memory?

[Snow White]

Memory leak is when an app first starts and a call is put into the 
system for a certain amount of RAM to be reserved for its use only and 
then once the app uses it and runs it demands more RAM from the system 
as needed, but never 'remembers' to relinquish its un-used RAM back to 
the system.  Some very bad programs even 'forget' to reliquish the RAM 
back when the are closed, so every time it is started a new call for 
RAM is sent.  Eventually this eats up most of the available RAM and 
everything runs real slow or crashes.  It is caused by miopic 
programming or bad programming.

Your problem could also be bad RAM. One or some of your chips may have 
gone south,  Are you using Generic RAM? Is there a warrantee? Did you 
run a RAM Checker program to test it?  I found bad sticks in my G4 
after about 1 year of use - some of the generic Ram is not perfect and 
OSX is very picky.

jj


On 27-Nov-04, at 9:46 PM, g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
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> How much memory?
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> On Nov 27, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
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>> Some will tell you that 1.5 Gb is all that OS X will use. Others will
>> tell you that if apps are written to utilize more than 1.5 GB they
>> will. I don't know, but suspect the latter is more correct.
>> I really don't think that is your problem. I believe some app you are
>> running has a memory leak and is gobbling up more memory than it
>> actually needs. Start with the most suspect and run the apps one at a
>> time to see which is the offender. Then advise the developer to get
>> the app fixed. Avoid using it until they do.
>>
>>
>
> What is exactly is a memory leak?  The only app I use other than OS X
> apps is Halo.  Could that be the culprit?
>
> Thanks--
>
> Kevin