Re: [MacPerl] 68k droplets, failed to launch ...

[Axel Rose <rose@internet.sj.com>]

Hi Mac-Perlers!

"Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of a memory problem)."
still persists!


>>Sorry - but rebuilding the desktop has no effect.
>
>Oops, sorry, failed to read the mail properly.
>
Never mind - it's a miracle anyway how you manage to answer
all those messages and writing up your thesis at the same time.

>>> - give MacPerl more memory,
>
>The "memory problem" message hints at the opposite: That the droplet
>application takes up so much memory that there is not enough heap space
>to launch MacPerl.

Saving a file from MacPerl5[07|10r2] gives me a file
Type=APPL, Create=MrPL, size 9k, memory - suggested: 64k
minimum: 64k, preferred: 64k.
MacPerl itself is APPL/McPL, all memory size settings 2048k.
Playing around with memory settings doesn't change anything.

"About this Macintosh ..." shows about 14.000k largest free memory
block.
Fragmentation seems unlikely because I tested immediately after
a restart.

It's a puzzle to me.
And let me repeat it - the droplet will work if MacPerl is already
running.

Matthias: would it make sense if you give me a suitable break-point
for MacsBug?


>Weren't you the person who had droplets fail because you dropped lots
>of files on them? The solution to that is to give the droplet more

No - the not working droplet is a single line statement (unlink)
but all other droplets fail to work as well.


Axel

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