[dbergstrom]

I am running a Wallstreet 233/512L2 with 160MB or RAM (I do not use VM). OS9 is adequately fast and VERY stable on my system, but I have noticed drastic memory fragmentation.

I just restarted the computer, launched Eudora 4.2, Navigator, and Acrobat Reader, in that order. Then I quit out of the applications in the reverse order in which they were opened. This was it - the computer was only running about 1/2 an hour from restart to when I quit out of the apps. My largest available block was bout 120 MB before launching all of the apps. Afer quitting them it was only 92 MB.

This is a chronic problem which obligates me to reboot every couple of days. Is this a result of the increased use of guard pages in OS9 to prevent total system crashes?

[47Ronin]

Have you tried MacOS Purge? I can usually reclaim up to 7MB RAM after quitting programs. There's no getting around the fragmentation, especially with VM off. I run with VM off only because I want speed and stability. Hopefully things will get better in the next major OS release (i'm praying for dynamic mem alloc)

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Glenn
47 Ronin Multimedia
www.47ronin.com