Bootcamp rumor? and adding memory

so i was at my local apple store talking to one of the employees about my issue of wanting to install leopard and reinstall windows through bootcamp, but the only program I need to use on that dreaded OS is AutoCAD, Viz, and Revit(extremely heavy 2d and 3d modeling programs). Now i currently am running all of this successfully on my MBP but because of it's age, the time has come to add some more memory in my empty slot.
When i was talking to this blue shirted mac "expert" he recommended to keep using bootcamp after installing my new memory along with leopard and there should be no problems. when i asked him his opinion on VMWare Fusion and Parallels, he said there is no need because I can run bootcamp as an application just like fusion or parallels. is this true or is this "expert" pulling my leg?
Also, he never gave me any advice as to when i should install my new memory, either before or after my leopard install.
any and all help is greatly appreciated.

I would strip the "expert" of his stripes until they attend some classes on running Windows on Mac.
Prepare for the worst; but hope for the best.
Windows should not need activation but it may want to create a larger page file.
Installing, or updating to Leopard, 'should' be pain-free, but some people lost their BootCamp partition. Perhaps the partition tables were updated and going from Beta 1.x to Leopard ran into a snafu.
In any event, I would backup both partitions before upgrading. SuperDuper or something for OS X side, and WinClone 2.x for Windows.
http://www.twocanoes.com
A VM won't give you the performance you need for your programs so you are still going to have to dual-boot.
I would install and test out your system first with the new memory, as long as it meets or exceeds specs and is compatible with your existing memory, but maybe do so after you have backups. (Too often people don't insure that they have a working bootable backup it seems.) You could also run Apple Hardware Test and Memtest just to give your RAM and system a good workout.

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Well I’ve had an awful night and have work in two hours but at least the last 6 years of my (now backed up) life is intact and in my hands. I’d rather lose a night of sleep than lose all my data.
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Added Memory, but not showing up in System Profilier

I have an iBook G4 1.2Ghz/12-inch screen laptop. Bus speed 133 MHz. It has 256 MB built-in memory. I added a stick of 512 that is appropriate for this computer. (PC 2100) It is seated correctly, and the clips are in place.
However, when I go to the System Profiler, it still only shows my Built-In Memory, and shows that the DIMM1/J7 Memory slot is Empty.
Is there something I need to do to get my computer to recognize the added hardware?
The odd thing is, my computer really does seem to be using the added memory, as I can now have multiple applications open without slowing or freezing.
Thanks,
Sonya

You are correct. When the Mac starts up it checks for RAM, no configuration needed on your part. I would suggest taking the chip out and putting it back in to make certain it's pushed in correctly. It should actually "snap" or "click" softly into place.
-Doug

Semaphores and shared memory's classes

Hi there,
I looking for the classes used to deal with semaphores and shared memory. Does anyone know which are these classes?
Thanks

The file mapping capability added in 1.4 may result in shared memory but this is not guaranteed. You can use JNI to call some C code which allocates shared memory and then uses the NewDirectByteBuffer method to return a ByteBuffer representing that shared memory to the Java code.
You would also need to use JNI to wrap system provided semaphore or mutex operations to provide cross process synchronization.
However, do your communication needs really require performance in excess of that available using sockets? I can get at least 7MB/s between two processes on a rather modest machine.

[svn:fx-trunk] 13129: ASDoc bug fixes, and added a note that Scroller no longer has a default value of hasFocusableChildren ="false" and focusEnabled="true"

Revision: 13129
Revision: 13129
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-12-21 13:50:37 -0800 (Mon, 21 Dec 2009)
Log Message:
ASDoc bug fixes, and added a note that Scroller no longer has a default value of hasFocusableChildren="false" and focusEnabled="true"
QE notes: -
Doc notes: -
Bugs: - FLEXDOCS-386
Reviewer: -
Tests run: - checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXDOCS-386
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/controls/VideoDisplay.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/core/UIComponent.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/events/VideoEvent.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/core/SpriteVisualElement.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/effects/interpolation/MultiValueInterp olator.as

I had a while ago similar problem with USB memory stick. At the end, I don't know why, just formatting it using WinXP helped me.
S-
Last edited by StenM (2011-07-22 17:56:32)

Mail.app and huge memory leak

Mail.app have some serious memleaks: http://jabster.nazwa.pl/MailAppMemLeak.mov (recorded from activity monitor). Mail.app can eat all memory and cause system to become unrespondable. Anyone have similar issue?

Solved it!
I have several email accounts configured in Mail. While Mail was eating up the memory, I've noticed the rotating circle at one of the accounts indicating Mail is doing something with it. This particular account was Google mail via IMAP. What I did to resolve problem is I deleted Google mail from my accounts and I've restarted Mail. Things turned back to normal! Then I've added GMail account again, and it is working like a charm since, Mail is using only 238Mb of memory.
Therefore, I can conclude there is a bug in Mail handling email accounts (in my case Google mail via IMAP) and it is doing something with that account that increasingly takes ridiculous amounts of memory. Removing the account in questions, restarting Mail and adding the account again has solved the problem in my case :))
Danny

Added memory but....

Hello Everyone,
I am very new to Mac so please be patient on how I explain things. First I want to say how much I love my Power Mac G5. I love the way the power Mac G5 looks and the way Mac OS 10.4 runs!
However, I think i may have a slight problem. I bought the computer used off ebay with a 22-inch wide screen monitor. Everything works great but I thought since it came with a ton of programs and only 1gig of ram I would add more.
Yesterday I went to Compusa and bought 2 512DDR PC3200 memory chips. Well thinking this would help speed up my computer. It seem to have no effect. So I decided to do a little searching to see if anything was hogging up resources.
I opened Activity monitor and found a program called Virex that was taking up like 80% of the processor resources. After doing some research I download a program that uninstalled Virex.
Thinking now everything should run very smooth. It almost seems to run worse after uninstalling the Virex and adding the memory. The harddrive is working much more and I noticed the fans kick higher and lower quite a bit, just from surfing the web and IM.
As of right now Activity Monitor reads
CPU
% User 8.00
% System 6.00
% Nice 0.00
% idle 86.00
Memory
Wired 141.43 MB
Active 241.09 MB
Inactive 500.72 MB
Used 883.72 MB
Free 1.14GB
Disk
Reads in: 23437
Writes out: 10558
Data read 556.02 MB
Data Written 244.77 MB
Would some kinda disk defragmenting help with speeding things up? I think when I checked disk warrior it said something like 30% was fragmented.
Anyway please give me any info you can!
Thanks much!
Mike

Thanks everyone for the reply. Sorry I was in Vegas all last week and was really unable to reply. I have ordered a Mac OSX DVD set brand new for $67.00.
I wanted to just update everyone on a new issue LOL. This morning I used the G5. Everything was going good; I was using Yahoo IM, Netscape, & itost (I think it is called). Anyway, I got the Kernel panic screen. Where everything locks up and goes gray. Then it tells you to reboot. Well I held down the power button. The system shut down, when I started the system back up. It went to the bootup screen with the white back ground, gray apple logo, and a spinning progress bar. But it does nothing after that; I tried again and again but it just sits there. I hear the hard drive click a few times but that’s it. If I let it sit long enough it will switch to a blue background with progress bar. Then from there it will just be a blue background and let me move the mouse. But there are no programs or anything for that matter.
Really strange, could this be a much bigger issue like a bad hard drive?
Thanks
Mike

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