[muglo] Re: memory

  • From: Andy Skuse <askuse@xxxxxx>
  • To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:00:40 -0500

>> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:58:01 -0500
>> Subject: [muglo] memory
>> From: taylorc547@xxxxxxxxxx
>> To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>> Having some problems lately with screen freezing to the point I  
>> sometimes
>> have to force quit Explorer.
>> I have a power mac G4, AGP Graphics, 9.2.2 with 512 megs. Even had
>> additional memory added a while back. System has been slow lately  
>> and then a
>> couple of days ago I began getting notices that Explorer was  
>> critically low
>> on memory. Ultimately the system would freeze and I had to force quit
>> explorer and restart.
>>   Any idea what could be wrong? jim

On 6-Jan-10, at 1:20 PM, Dean Danis wrote:

> You need to allocate more memory to Explorer. I think it's in the  
> memory control panel.
>
> Dean Danis

Jim, are you running Mac OS 9.2.2 natively, or in Classic Mode (within  
Mac OS X)?

If Classic Mode, then Dean's advice applies.

If you are running 9.2.2 as the native Mac OS, then do a Get Info  
(Command+I) on the Internet Explorer application file, then click on  
the Memory tab and you will be able to increase the amount of Minimum  
memory that IE can use. But only increase in small increments. If it  
is currently using 1024 KB (1MB) then just double it to 2048 (2MB) and  
see how it runs. Keep increasing it by small chunks (IE should not  
need more than 12 MB) until it seems to resolve the issue. If the  
memory error continues then the problem may not actually be a memory  
issue and the program may have corrupt prefs files. The next step then  
is to Trash the IE Prefs file and see if that resolves the issue.  
Trahsing the Prefs file won't damage IE. The OS will create a new  
Prefs file then next time you launch IE.


Andy
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