What This Will Do For Your Mac:
This section of 'All I Ever Needed to Know About Memory' will explain how to increase
the speed of any application you choose. For example: if you want to view websites
faster, you would increase Netscape's or Internet Explorer's memory. We've seen
applications run up to twice as fast using this. Using this will also make applications
more stable and cause them to crash less often.
What You Need to Do This:
Nothing really. This works with all Macs and all versions of system software.
The more physical ram you have, the higher you can bump up the memory of your applications.
The higher you bump up the memory, the faster the application runs.
You can always use more physical ram!
How to Do It:
1) Make sure that the application you want to speed up is not running.
Open the folder where the application you want to speed up is located by double
clicking on the folder.
2) Click ONCE on the application you want to speed up. Make sure that the
application's icon is highlighted as shown in Figure 0.1.
3) Click and hold the 'File' menu on the menu bar. Drag the mouse pointer down
to 'Get Info' as shown in Figure 0.2.
4) A window titled 'Get Info' should pop up on your screen as shown in Figure 0.3.
Now comes the fun part! In the boxes titled 'Minimum size' and 'Preferred size',
bump the number up a couple thousand. Remember that the preferred size must be
larger than the minimum size. You can bump it up more if you'd like too,
however, in this case you are limited by the amount of physical ram (or virtual ram) you have.
Also, performance increases only up to a certain point. Another words, if you bump
Netscape's preferred size up to 100,000; you won't get a proportional performance
increase.
Note: Some software companies set the minumum size low on
purpose. They want their software to run on as many different Macs as possible.
Most of the time though, this minumum size hampers performance and causes more crashes.
Do your Mac a favor and bump up the minumum size up a little on your favorite
applications!
5) Make sure that all the settings are the way that you want them. Close the
'Get Info' window.
6) Double click the application to open it. Work in the application for a few minutes
and test it out. If you think it should be a little faster, go through the steps again
and bump the memory up a little more. If you are satisfied with the speed increase,
you're finished!
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Figure 0.1
Figure 0.2
Figure 0.3
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How To Speed Up Applications by Increasing Memory!
