At 5:57 PM -0700 8/12/00, John M McIntosh wrote:
>on 8/12/00 1:07 PM, Andrew C. Greenberg at werdna at mucow.com wrote:
>
>>
>>  You might have some memory issues, despite (or perhaps because) of
>>  the allocation of 50M to Squeak.  On MacOS, calling plugins sometimes
>>  requires use of non-object application memory, and the minimum slosh
>>  allocated by the VM may not be sufficient.  This can be increased by
>>  using,
>>
>>  Smalltalk extraVMMemory: numberBytesInAdditionToSlosh
>>
>>  saving the image and restarting the machine, careful to assure there
>>  is enough space for the application memory as well as the object
>>  memory space in the Finder allocation.
>>
>
>I should point out in the current JUNE/00 macintosh 2.8beta VM the amount of
>slop allocated to the C heap at startup time is now 500,000 bytes, which
>makes Open Transport more happy, before this in say 2.7 it I think was a
>smaller number. As Andrew points out you can of course give the VM more via
>extraVMMemory

I think its been a half meg for quite awhile, but as noted, I think 
the memory problems from running simple Appletalk scripts, if any, 
may derive from choking the System by fattening Squeak, not by Squeak 
being too skinny.
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