Re: FLASH: Flash 5 Instability

[John Dowdell]

At 9:46 AM 11/2/0,

ifxjps [dot] net

 wrote:

> While working on a separate problem with my double monitor setup,

> I discovered that Virtual Memory had gotten turned back on. Not

> sure when that happened.. but I quickly turned it off. That was

> last week and Flash hasn't crashed since and my the problem with

> double monitors is gone.


Thanks for the followup... appreciated. Here are some some followups from

other folks that have closed out similar threads:


--  one person found that updating their trackball driver removed the failures


--  more than a few had the MacOS problem with excess temp files, and using

Eradicator or manually cleaning temp files gave normal performance


--  one thread was apparently caused by using an older OS version


--  I've seen one thread report that turning off Aqua UI elements fixed it,

but I suspect there must be an additional cofactor


--  many threads have been due to memory issues, particularly decompressing

many JPGs or MP3s into RAM while editing (filesize on disc must explode

into RAM to display)


There could be other causes too, for sure, from specific fonts of font

managers to extension conflicts to drivers to other system problems and

more, but the above are the results from similar threads. Your report helps

to weight memory issues in future reports, so thanks!


jd







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