>Hi,
>
>I keep on running into 'Memory is low' messages in the MacOS X vm.  I
>knew how to set memory limits/space in OS 9, but X has me stumped :(
>
>Can someone please tell me:
>
>(1) What the current memory limit on the Vm is,
>(2) How I raise that to have more room to play in?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Russell
>
>
>----------------------------------------
>Russell Allen
>
>russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
>
>----------------------------------------

If you look at 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/squeak/squeak/platforms/Mac%20OS/vm/sqMacWindow.c 
you'll see that at 3.2.2 we changed the memory limit to 512MB.

This means you need at least 512MB or more (usually 2 +/- GB) of 
space where you are having OS-X place it's dynamically allocated swap 
files.

Pre 3.2.2 VM attempted to allocate 1GB of memory, but I found some 
interesting problems in where that memory gets allocated at and how 
Squeak is not 32bit clean.

When you get the memory is low. What do the GC/space numbers tell you?

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