If you are in the habit of opening a few (or many!) applications at once,
and then hope to recover the memory when closing them, they must be closed
in the reverse order of opening.
e.g. if you open 1,2,3,4, you cannot close 2 and neccessarily get `that
amount' of memory back. Depending on how much memory the next program
requires (maybe CellQuest set at 6MB), you may get the `out of memory'
message. This confuses users all the time as the Mac system (`About This
Mac' from the Apple Menu) tells you there is heaps of available memory!
Basically the current MacOS versions do not compact the unused memory. The
only way to do this is a reboot. However, if you use RAM Doubler and/or
OptiMem I think one or both of these programs will compact these memory
`holes'.
Leon.
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