Re: memory

On May 6, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Max Haas wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Mac OS X 4.6, 512 MB DDR SDRAM.
>
> I implemented a pinboard-layout with a width of 20000 and a height  
> of 20000. LW crashed several times (with messages of the Mac OS or  
> not). When I reduced the width to 4000 and the height to 5000  
> everything was o.k. (Crash: either there was the spinning ball and  
> I had to quit from LW with help of the OS or LW crashed and the OS  
> told me so).
>
> I think it's a memory problem and naturally it's my fault. What  
> interests me is the fact that I didn't get a warning from LW. Is  
> this normal behavior (according to the implementation plans of the  
> LW makers) or is it unusual (perhaps due to MacOS 4.6)?

If you start LW from a shell you might see a bunch of messages  
printed there that will help you work out what is going on (or that  
you can report to Lispworks -- I've reported a bunch of problems on  
OS/X).

Cheers,
Bob

>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Max
>

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