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Frodo:

Here's a long shot, but an easy one to try.

What about loading only half your ram? Try it with 4G instead of 8G. When I scanned that apple thread, all the folks reporting the giant memory number (which to my thinking is a form of a binary -1) had 8G or more ram.

My fingers are crossed for you!

--- Number of Threads = 21
--- Real Memory = 305.21 MB
--- Virtual Memory = 902.77 MB

Also:

% CPU (stopped) 36.50; (Playing) 72.00
Process = 495
# ports = 1,913
Shared = 184.15 MB
Private = 235.55 MB
CPU Time = 37.70
Messages sent = 93,769
Messages Received = 52,350

Have no idea what most of that stuff means, BTW.

auptown wrote:Frodo:

Here's a long shot, but an easy one to try.

What about loading only half your ram? Try it with 4G instead of 8G. When I scanned that apple thread, all the folks reporting the giant memory number (which to my thinking is a form of a binary -1) had 8G or more ram.

My fingers are crossed for you!

Oh no! What if the solution to Frodo's problem is LESS RAM! That would just be wrong. So wrong!

Phil

Tim wrote:

blue wrote: I think something's up with your motherboard or something.

I believe that was Freudo's problem.

Nice.

chucks wrote:You're not alone.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... ID=5195401

http://logic-users.org/forums/LUG/thread/99945

With exactly the same numbers: 16,777,216

Which happens to be 256 x 256 x 256

I am so far from a computer programmer it's not funny, but my little mind would say that there is a corrupted chip or software instruction in the OS that likes to multiply RAM instead of adding it. As a result, I would imagine that RAM addresses are also screwed up, resulting in spinning color wheels and crashes.

The Apple Discussions thread is not encouraging. Motherboard replaced, hardware and RAM tested, etc. to no avail. It might be one of those hard to track down OS bugs (not unlike the MIDI volume bug in DP) that the programmers just cannot figure out. But that doesn't help Frodo.

Sucks!

Phil O wrote:

auptown wrote:Frodo:

Here's a long shot, but an easy one to try.

What about loading only half your ram? Try it with 4G instead of 8G. When I scanned that apple thread, all the folks reporting the giant memory number (which to my thinking is a form of a binary -1) had 8G or more ram.

My fingers are crossed for you!

Oh no! What if the solution to Frodo's problem is LESS RAM! That would just be wrong. So wrong!

Phil

This was also covered in the Apple thread. Didn't work there.

I'm curious, however. I don't see that anyone with this problem reinstalled the OS. Have you?

auptown wrote:Frodo:
Here's a long shot, but an easy one to try.
What about loading only half your ram? Try it with 4G instead of 8G. When I scanned that apple thread, all the folks reporting the giant memory number (which to my thinking is a form of a binary -1) had 8G or more ram.
My fingers are crossed for you!

Good call, Andy.

Wouldn't it be a hoot if RAMbro's problem was that he had too much, when adding RAM was almost a standard prescription of his?
Fingers crossed here too.

Tim wrote:

blue wrote: I think something's up with your motherboard or something.

I believe that was Freudo's problem.

LOL! Brilliant, Tim!

threads 192
VM 10.71 GB
800mb

Session with many VI's

and it works fine...

blue wrote:Wow, Frodo. I know you've always been a proponent of RAM, but 16,777,216 TB?

I agree with James. I think something's up with your motherboard or something.

Sorry frodo.. on the upside it's good to know Apple is able to read tera bytes.

Timeline wrote:

blue wrote:Wow, Frodo. I know you've always been a proponent of RAM, but 16,777,216 TB?
I agree with James. I think something's up with your motherboard or something.

Sorry frodo.. on the upside it's good to know Apple is able to read tera bytes.

A hippo died a few weeks ago at Sydney's Toronga Zoo from too much tera bytin'.
The post-mortem revealed 15 pounds of sand in its gut.

True story.

Hey... maybe that's my problem.

Naa... we've all eaten our fair share of dirt around here, Gary.

That's one of the things that make us so earthy and approachable.

Phil O wrote:Something's rotten in Denmark. Or Cupertino.

Apple: "Umm sorry to hear that, but would you like to buy an iPhone?"

I really hope Apple doesn't take their corporate eye off of their (original) core business. You know... computers! That word they dropped from their name.

James Steele wrote:

Phil O wrote:Something's rotten in Denmark. Or Cupertino.

Apple: "Umm sorry to hear that, but would you like to buy an iPhone?"

I really hope Apple doesn't take their corporate eye off of their (original) core business. You know... computers! That word they dropped from their name.

I wouldn't mind a 33% discount on an 8 core..

James Steele wrote: I really hope Apple doesn't take their corporate eye off of their (original) core business. You know... computers! That word they dropped from their name.

Because of my (now solved) dilemma I was in an Apple Store yesterday and noticed something wierd that I couldn't quite put my finger on immediately...driving home it dawned on me that most of the displayed merchandise was not computers...maybe 25% of floor space, the rest iPods and iPhones and of course the service desks.

Buzz

James, do ya think they may go faringie on us after all the success with consumer retail and maybe tired of trying to serve up expensive low margin computers in the face of so many cheap PC's?

Frodo,
do you have apple care?