Ouestion for the Wizards - Applications memory adjustment in Mac OS X

[Wafa]

Does anyone knows how to adjust memory partitions for applications in Mac OS X. I am trying to allocate additional memory to some applications but don't know how one practically can do that?? in Mac OS 9 one could increase or decrease memory in the "Get Info" dialog box or by using Res Edit to adjust memory under "Size". Is there is any tweak to do the same in OSX??

 

[simX]

There is no way to do that, because of how OS X allocates memory. It decides itself how much memory an application can use, and it can dynamically assign more if the application needs it later after launch.

This memory management is much better than OS 9's. And the result? No more memory allocation!

Applications will always have enough memory, because OS X also has efficient virtual memory management. You can't disable that either, although there's no reason to disable it because it's so good!

So enjoy your allocation-free life in OS X!

However, if you are opening a Classic application, you must still allocate memory to those applications. You achieve this by getting info on the file, selecting "Memory" from the popup menu, and then allocating the memory like normal.