[G4] Browsers

[Steve Adams]

I have a dual G4 ethernet and I'm running 1.5 Gig of Ram. I think the  
max is 2 gig for these models.

I use Safari but I'm starting to use Camino more and more. Safari has  
some type of memory leak and eats up 500-700 meg of ram in a matter  
of days. I've complained about it but nothing seems to happens. Apple  
has had a lot of problems programming for these dual processors (even  
10.2 had early problems with the dual processors) and maybe that has  
something to do with the memory leak.

In OSX you do not allocate memory to programs. The OS does that  
automatically.

I have ran OS9 and OSX on the same drive with no partitions. There is  
no need to partition. Partitioning does help in keeping things  
organized but there is no need to do it. There has been many heated  
discussions about this subject on this board, but I have done it with  
no partitions and there is no need for partitioning.


Steve Adams







On Feb 5, 2007, at 12:05 AM, Margaret Krakowiak wrote:

> I actually started the DVR thread, and then asked about browsers,
> keeping the same "re:" subject header.
>
> Anyway, I've been heeding the browser discussion, and I've downloaded
> both Opera and Camino to test out. I'm finding Safari to be very  
> sloooow.
> How much memory should I give it? Do you allocate memory in OSX?
>
>  I'm still a newbie to OSX, and I'll probably hold off till spring  
> to upgrade from
> what I have, which is 10.2.8. I've spent all my $$ on the internal  
> 250 gig hard
> drive, adapter card, and yes (John), I did get an external firewire  
> drive too.
> Do I have to partition it to put both 9.2.2 and 10 on it? I've  
> already backed
> up a bunch of stuff on it and don't want to initialize it if I  
> don't have to. It's HFS
> extended. I probably should get some more memory, as I have 768:   
> two 128s
> and a 512. Can my machine use more than a gig? (dual G4, gig  
> ethernet model?)
> I have one slot open. What's the memory max on this machine with X?
>
> Lastly, my DVD superdrive. When I use the eject key on the keyboard,
> the tray slides out and stays, I can take the disk out and put  
> another in. But the old
> disk image stays on the desktop, if I click on it it disappears,  
> but the new one doesn't
> mount. If I drag the disk to the trash to eject it works as it  
> should. I can live with this,
> but find it a little odd.
>
> margaret
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