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Sandking - May 23, 2005 - 2:07 pm

Hi,

In some app tutorial I saw an option to change amount of ram given to application. It should be under 'get info' option but I don't have it. How to turn it on?

I got Tiger on iBook g4.

Jacek

earthsaver - May 23, 2005 - 2:22 pm

Are you sure?, Jacek. Mac OS X finally brought protected memory (no longer a need to allocate manually). True, info windows were where this option was under OS 9 and earlier; and the functionality remains for applications launched in the Classic environment.

Otherwise, in OS X you can only "renice" applications/processes to tell the system how to prioritize your tasks, but that's about all.

Are you suggesting something else?

- Ben

Sandking - May 23, 2005 - 2:30 pm

Well, it looked as OS X design. I just need to know that I'm working on full speed and want to give as much ram to app as system can.

Jacek

earthsaver - May 23, 2005 - 2:38 pm

If the application is in the foreground, the system is probably giving it enough memory. You can check current real/virtual allocations in Activity Monitor. You can certainly maximize the RAM allocated to one app by quitting all others, but I suppose the better question is: Are you experiencing slowness? Are you worried that an app isn't running full speed?

- Ben

Sandking - May 23, 2005 - 2:41 pm

I won't know if app is slow if I don't know that for sure it can't go faster :]

Jacek

earthsaver - May 23, 2005 - 2:43 pm

Is this a particular app you wish to discuss?

- Ben

Sandking - May 23, 2005 - 2:47 pm

Well, no. I try to get my best from PowerCADD. But would like also to see other apps running fastest way they can. I know that Tiger has good memory magement but maybe there's an even better solution?

Jacek

earthsaver - May 23, 2005 - 2:51 pm

You could search VersionTracker for utilities capable of the renice command, to set application priorities as I described before. Nothing in terms of direct memory management, though, because it's protected.

- Ben