I found a good way to free up RAM - quit the finder. Doing so freed up 100MB on my TiBook! It's so nice not paging to disk as often, and I have more CPU time available.
I used TinkerTool (ed: see Hall of Fame Apps box for link) to add a quit option to the Finder application menu and it works just fine. The drawback is that I don't have my desktop picture! Does anyone know of a program that supplements the Finder Desktop picture capability? This flat blue is getting old ;)
[Editor's note: You can also install SNAX as a Finder replacement; see this hint for details...still no desktop picture, though.]
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Mac OS X Hints
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