on 3/21/01 9:38 AM, logic-users@yahoogroups.com at logic-users@yahoogroups.com wrote: > OT: Mac OS 9.1 virtual memory problem > > Hello, > > Has anyone else using OS 9.1 experienced this problem: the finder takes > almost all of the available RAM (in my case, around 690 mb out of an > available 896 mb). This only happens with virtual memory off. > > The problem appeared as soon as I originally installed 9.1. A friend > suggested that there was a problem with the 9.1 updater and that I > should do a clean install of the OS from a 9.1 disk. Good advice...but not necessarily the case. > I did this, and it > fixed the problem for about two weeks before it suddenly reappeared. Zap your PRAM... Restart your Mac, and hold down Opt+Command+P+R keys. Let it cycle a few times. Reset your control Panels (if necessary). Then reboot and then rebuild your desktop. After this, any problems you had with MacOS 9.1 'should' all go away. Otherwise it could a corrupt preference file. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Phil Curtis

Thanks, Alexis I previously tried zapping the PRAM, to no effect. The only fix seems to be a clean reinstall, which I have done (but it's kind of a pain restoring extensions, preferences, etc.) It doesn't seem to be an extensions problem, as I've tried reducing to a minimal extensions set to no effect. If it were a corrupt preference file, which preference file? I tried trashing finder preferences. Thanks, Phil --- In logic-users@y..., Alexis Aiosa <aiosa9@m...> wrote: > on 3/21/01 9:38 AM, logic-users@y... at > logic-users@y... wrote: > > > OT: Mac OS 9.1 virtual memory problem > > > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone else using OS 9.1 experienced this problem: the finder takes > > almost all of the available RAM (in my case, around 690 mb out of an > > available 896 mb). This only happens with virtual memory off. > > > > The problem appeared as soon as I originally installed 9.1. A friend > > suggested that there was a problem with the 9.1 updater and that I > > should do a clean install of the OS from a 9.1 disk. > > Good advice...but not necessarily the case. > > > I did this, and it > > fixed the problem for about two weeks before it suddenly reappeared. > > Zap your PRAM... > > Restart your Mac, and hold down > Opt+Command+P+R keys. Let it cycle a few times. > > Reset your control Panels (if necessary). Then reboot and then rebuild your > desktop. > > After this, any problems you had with MacOS 9.1 'should' all go away. > Otherwise it could a corrupt preference file. > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Phil Curtis