Re: List limits
Re: List limits
- Subject: Re: List limits
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 19:50:49 -0800
On 12/16/01 7:30 PM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 17/12/01 2:17 PM +1000, Paul Berkowitz, email@hidden, wrote:
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> I think that's the problem: it's an OS X applet so there should be no memory
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> limit at all except the user's machine, correct?
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As far as I'm aware. Are you sure it's actually being launched in Carbon?
Yes. it's definitely an OS X applet. And all the display dialogs, even while
the Classic app is running - unless they're specifically within the 'tell
classic app' tell block - are OS X dialogs.
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> Too many apps open. (And I believe it is a relatively feeble rev 1 iBook with
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> almost no hard disk space available, so VM would be at a premium too.)
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If that is the cause, and it's running in Carbon, it sounds to me that it's
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something that _shouldn't_ happen. But anything's possible at the
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frontier...
Well, there's got to be a limit somewhere. It's really not a very robust
machine, I'm told - slow CPU, very low memory, almost all of it being used
by the OS, and he really was trying to transfer a large amount of data -
more than I tested with. It would be nice to be able to politely exit rather
than just quit like the script did. The script happily removed the
identifying marks on the originating data before quitting so he has to go
dig it all out again.
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Paul Berkowitz