Re: [MacPerl] Maximum number of filenames for a droplet

[online@mactech.com (Jeff at MacTech)]

In article <mac-perl.v03110705b26771a26993@[205.219.251.21]>, Trent Bowman
<trentb@trstone.com> wrote:

>>At 12.08 -0500 1998.11.03, Dan Herron wrote:
>>>I think the problem can be solved by increasing the memory partition for
>>>the droplet, if my memory serves me (and it has to, since I have no Mac
>>>to test this on.) I seem to remember cranking the memory allocation (File
>>>-> Get Info) up to about 100K, and then it could handle (pass to MacPerl)
>>>a reasonable number of files.
>>
>>Confirmed.  I can't give hard number recommendations, but I made 1000 temp
>>files, and it would not work with the standard 64K given to a droplet, but
>>it would work when I upped it to 1024K.
>
>I'm not sure if the amount of memory allocated to the droplet is the
>whole story. I've had the same droplet act differently under different
>operating systems. At one point, I was able to drop 118 files with no
>problems, but at other times, I can only drop half or a third of them.
>Whenever I upgrade my Mac OS or boot from another system the "magic
>number" seems to change.

A thought: are these PPC machines? If so, the difference could be virtual
memory on vs. off. With it on, the code takes up less memory, and hence
more is left to be used for data.
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