Reduce RAM allocation in Classic to reduce crashes

Jan 14, '02 11:53:18PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you are having Classic programs quitting on you, you might want to try reducing the the amount of memory allocated to that program.

I had problems with Photoshop, either it would quit on start up or it would quit right after that. So I played around with setting when I brought the memory back down, it was running great again. I don't think X can't handle more memory than 300,000 allocated to it.

I hope this helps.

[Editor's note: Anyone have any further info on this? How does Classic handle programs which request their own blocks of memory within Classic? I'm not too clear on this one, other than I was under the impression that Classic operated in a 1gb virtual address space. Can anyone provide any further detail on how Classic RAM allocation issues are resolved, and whether reducing RAM allocations could help with Classic application stability?]

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