Author: John Scalo
Date: 10:59:05 08/18/98
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On August 17, 1998 at 07:27:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 17, 1998 at 06:32:24, William Dozier wrote: > >>Good morning guys:To whome it may Concern: Crafty 15.15 for whatever reason runs >>out of memory under system under O/S 7 or 8. and have 64 meg of ram. So at this >>time crafty 15.15 is of no use to me. But on the other hand versions 14.13 & >>14.6 works well under the same system with books and T/B and it doesnt run out >>of memory. In fact all versions crafty 15 is flakey(please this is not a >>put/down). on my old Ppc. Is there anybody working on a more stable version that >>does not us up a lot of memory? >> >> Respectfully/William > >Crafty doesn't use a lot of memory. The Mac might think it does, for reasons >unknown, but I have run it on machines with 1mb (PC) with no problems except >for the small hash size (default) used... > >see if you have some option to tell the mac that crafty doesn't need more than >15mb or some such number. It must be assuming something big... > >and make sure you don't ask for some huge hash size (hash=48m will do the >trick and make it take nearly 64mb, for example) Try bringing the preferred size listed in the get info window *down*. I seem to remember some other mac distributions of crafty having the mem partition jacked all the way up to 120MB or something, which in theory would be ok - just saturating all of your available ram no matter how much - but in practice this is probably a bad approach.
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