Macintosh IIci Memory Settings Suggestions

[seanrox]

I recently upgraded my Macintosh IIci to 128 MB RAM and added a SCSI2SD setup with a 2 GB SD card (I've retired my 80 MB hard drive), so now I have plenty of RAM and hard drive space which is nice. I'm also using the built in video until I can find a decently priced Nubus video card and my machine has the 32KB cache card installed.

With the above in mind I'm looking for suggestions on the best settings for memory, like disk cache size and virtual memory size so my machine will run nicely. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Cory5412]

I tend to run my own machines with the defaults. I don't know if anybody has tested whether or not disabling disk cache in systems with SCSI2SD makes anuy difference, but it's usually such a small amount, relative to the needs of even system 7.6.1 and mid '90s software.

Virtual memory can be disabled, in my experience it doesn't really impact performance, but you'll get the disk allocation back, which might (I need to test) be 1 or 129 megabytes.

 

[seanrox]

I tend to run my own machines with the defaults. I don't know if anybody has tested whether or not disabling disk cache in systems with SCSI2SD makes anuy difference, but it's usually such a small amount, relative to the needs of even system 7.6.1 and mid '90s software.

Virtual memory can be disabled, in my experience it doesn't really impact performance, but you'll get the disk allocation back, which might (I need to test) be 1 or 129 megabytes.

Thank you @Cory5412 for the reply and feedback. I've been doing the same myself (running with default settings) to play it safe, Interesting on the virtual memory. Since I have no real limitation on available hard drive space now, I should do some benchmarks and see if I notice any difference with it on or off.

I'm pretty new to Macintosh machines but been a Apple IIe user since I was a kid, however I want to make my Macintosh IIci the best it can be heh. This site has been a wealth of information in my learning process.

I am curious to hear additional feedback from more members if anyone else wants to chime in and help a noob out with his Mac