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mathgeek
Junior Member
USA
113 Posts |
 Posted - 16 Jul 2002 : 23:10:13
I as trying to see if giving MpegDec more ram would improve it's performance on my performa 636. I changed the preferred memory allocation to double what it was: from 3840K to 7680K leaving the minimum memory allocation alone. When I tried to close the 'get info' window I got the following message:"You have set the Minimum and Preferred sizes below 393,216K, which may cause "MpegDec 2.5.3" to crash." When I set the preferred memory back to 3840K everything was fine. Curious. Only Micro$@% would be so diabolical as to make an app require that much ram, which by the way works out to 384MB. This is suspiciously similar to 3840K, the default memory allocation. I suspect a bit shift bug. Anyone else notice this? mathgeek 68K Macs Liberated: LC, Performa 636, IIx
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jul 2002 : 08:44:04
I haven't played around with the RAM allocation in MpegDec, but I might try that to see if it happens for me, too.666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jul 2002 : 19:30:59
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I as trying to see if giving MpegDec more ram would improve it's performance on my performa 636. I changed the preferred memory allocation to double what it was: from 3840K to 7680K leaving the minimum memory allocation alone. When I tried to close the 'get info' window I got the following message:"You have set the Minimum and Preferred sizes below 393,216K, which may cause "MpegDec 2.5.3" to crash."
I actually encountered a similar "bug" in AOL Instant Messanger 2.5...but when I was changing the values, it took a long time to "accept" them and the system would lock up for a bit, then just take down the whole durn thing...I just trashed the folder, prefs, and re-installed.... You aren't by any chance, running 8.1 are you? --------------------
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mathgeek
Junior Member
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jul 2002 : 15:51:39
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You aren't by any chance, running 8.1 are you?
Yep. mathgeek 68K Macs Liberated: LC, Performa 636, IIx
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1559 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jul 2002 : 19:22:56
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You aren't by any chance, running 8.1 are you?
Yep.
I have a feeling it's more of an 8.1 Get Info / memory management issure rather than an mpegdec glitch... --------------------
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mathgeek
Junior Member
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - 19 Jul 2002 : 00:11:01
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I have a feeling it's more of an 8.1 Get Info / memory management issure rather than an mpegdec glitch...
hmmm.... strange.
I thought 8.1 ran fine on performas. Are there some bugs?
I'll try tweaking the memory on a bunch of different apps and see what happens. mathgeek 68K Macs Liberated: LC, Performa 636, IIx
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