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From: almond@bass.statsci.com (Russell G. Almond)
Subject: How does MCL interact with virtual memory?
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Coming from a Unix world rather than the Mac world, I'm not sure I
understand how the virtual memory works on the Mac.

I have a PowerPC with 40 MB of memory running system 7.5.2.  My system
is using about 12M of memory and I have configured MCL (using the Info
box) so that it prefers 24M of memory.  I can also turn on the virtual
memory option (in the control pannel), but that slows the machine
down.

Do I need to have virtual memory on?  Will MCL grow beyond the  24MB
if it needs the extra memory or do I need to explicitly set that?  How
do I know when I've exceeded my capacity?

Thanks for your help.

	--Russell Almond

p.s. thanks to all the people who helped me get Garnet up and running
on the Mac.  As soon as I finish testing Graphical-Belief on the Mac,
I'll send my garnet patches to the CMU folks to that other people can
grab them.

	--R

