EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 7/12/04 12:13 PM, "Dan Chapman" <dan@...> wrote:

> I'm not sure I'm understanding your explanation correctly.  Do you mean that
> if you load a "RAM hog" application like Logic or Photoshop, then open a
> "low RAM" application, the larger application can't expand RAM further?

Yes. Mac OS assigns RAM in solid chunks; it cannot assign RAM (or add more
RAM) to one app if another app is loaded afterwards.

Think of your RAM as the spindle on this classic Fisher-Price toy:

http://www.fisher-price.com/us/img/product_shots/71050_b_1.jpg

Lets say that Logic is the blue ring on the bottom (that you loaded FIRST),
and all the other rings are other apps. If you want to make the blue ring
BIGGER (give it more RAM), you will have to quit the other apps (take of the
rings above the blue ring off) in order for the blue ring to be made bigger.
That's why it's better to boot the other apps, first. That way the blue ring
can grow as large as it needs to -- until it gets taller than the spindle
and falls off. That's when your Fisher-Price toy CRASHES! :D