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#1 2011-10-24 00:45:59

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RAM allocation

How do you allocate more RAM than about 500mb to scratch because it keeps saying squeak is running out of memory - I'm on a mac (but also have windows installed on it too) 10.7.2 Lion, 4gb RAM

Anyone know

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#2 2011-10-24 01:06:44

bbbeb
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Re: RAM allocation

close
everything


Back in my day.... there were no laws that censored the internet... now, there are.... nah.

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#3 2011-10-24 02:08:01

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Re: RAM allocation

bbbeb wrote:

close
everything

i already have 1.38 gb free ram whats the point btw the quad core is like meh no effort

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#4 2011-10-28 03:48:13

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Re: RAM allocation

why is none replying!

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#5 2011-10-28 10:19:05

veggieman001
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Re: RAM allocation

Probably because we don't know. I sure don't.


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#6 2011-10-28 14:23:33

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Re: RAM allocation

Google it--there seems to be a lot of websites saying how to do this.  I won't link to a specific one because I don't know what your OS is.

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#7 2011-10-28 15:16:03

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Re: RAM allocation

Greenatic wrote:

Google it--there seems to be a lot of websites saying how to do this.  I won't link to a specific one because I don't know what your OS is.

mac os lion. It says in the first post -_-

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#8 2011-10-28 16:23:34

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Re: RAM allocation

LS97 wrote:

Greenatic wrote:

Google it--there seems to be a lot of websites saying how to do this.  I won't link to a specific one because I don't know what your OS is.

mac os lion. It says in the first post -_-

Oh, whoops.   tongue

That's odd:

http://switchtoamac.com/guides/mac-os-x/mac-os-x-features.html wrote:

Dynamic Memory (RAM) Allocation and Management
Mac OS X is capable of dynamically (on the fly) dealing with RAM requests from applications.  From the time an application is launched, Mac OS X handles all the memory the application needs.  At launch an application will request Mac OS X to give it as much RAM as it require and the request is honored if the memory is available.  If the application needs more memory as it is running to accomplish tasks Mac OS X will provide more.  The opposite is also true.  If an application is holding onto memory it no longer needs, Mac OS X can dynamically take it back and provide it to other applications if needed.  The benefit to the user is the memory is efficiently managed resulting in a more stable better performing system.  All a user needs to do is launch an application and let Mac OS X handle the rest.

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#9 2011-10-28 17:09:39

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Re: RAM allocation

It's prolly like Java: it's a VM that gets only so much memory allocated to it.


Yawn.

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#10 2011-10-28 18:29:14

Greenatic
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Re: RAM allocation

meowmeow55 wrote:

It's prolly like Java: it's a VM that gets only so much memory allocated to it.

It is a VM.  (Well, Squeak is, and that's what runs Scratch.)

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#11 2011-10-28 19:40:11

nathanprocks
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Re: RAM allocation

hmmm... just searched on Google... this might be useful....


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#12 2011-11-12 19:10:35

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Re: RAM allocation

nathanprocks wrote:

hmmm... just searched on Google... this might be useful....

i don't get what do i do

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