So I have a PowerBook 5300 with its ridiculously low stock 8 MB of RAM. To try to compensate for the slowness of the hard drive, I have tried using a PCMCIA memory stick adapter with a 64 MB memory stick in it.
I can get iCab to run off the hard drive, albeit painfully slowly (since I must have Virtual Memory on.) But any time I try to run it from the memory stick, iCab locks up the system. Sometimes immediately after launching (while "iCab" is still displaying in the menu bar,) sometimes after it draws its window, but before I have a chance to try to go to a website.
For the life of me, I can't figure out why iCab doesn't like the memory stick. (I have put the exact same System Folder and iCab app folder on the memory stick to boot from as on the internal drive.)
I have tried with and without (in various combinations) the following three utilities to help out, no combination helps: Speed Doubler 8, RAM Doubler 2, RAM Charger 8. (I think it's SD8 and RD2, those versions might be reversed.) When running form the hard drive, iCab works best when all three utilities are running. (Then again, everything works best when all three are running.)
While I can tell Mac OS's built-in Virtual Memory to run off the memory stick while the System is on the hard drive; and I can have iCab store its cache on the memory stick while running from the hard drive; even when I have both going, it still thrashes the hard drive incessantly when trying to load anything but the simplest web pages. (For example, loading the 68kmla or ppcmla forum main pages takes about 10 minutes.) Hence the reason I want to run the whole system off memory stick.
This system even has a nice battery that will last 2 hours running from the hard drive, or 3 hours running from memory stick. (If I run a simple app like SimpleText the whole time. No matter what I do, I cannot get the hard drive to stay 'spun down' when the system is running from the hard drive.)
I can get iCab to run off the hard drive, albeit painfully slowly (since I must have Virtual Memory on.) But any time I try to run it from the memory stick, iCab locks up the system. Sometimes immediately after launching (while "iCab" is still displaying in the menu bar,) sometimes after it draws its window, but before I have a chance to try to go to a website.
For the life of me, I can't figure out why iCab doesn't like the memory stick. (I have put the exact same System Folder and iCab app folder on the memory stick to boot from as on the internal drive.)
I have tried with and without (in various combinations) the following three utilities to help out, no combination helps: Speed Doubler 8, RAM Doubler 2, RAM Charger 8. (I think it's SD8 and RD2, those versions might be reversed.) When running form the hard drive, iCab works best when all three utilities are running. (Then again, everything works best when all three are running.)
While I can tell Mac OS's built-in Virtual Memory to run off the memory stick while the System is on the hard drive; and I can have iCab store its cache on the memory stick while running from the hard drive; even when I have both going, it still thrashes the hard drive incessantly when trying to load anything but the simplest web pages. (For example, loading the 68kmla or ppcmla forum main pages takes about 10 minutes.) Hence the reason I want to run the whole system off memory stick.
This system even has a nice battery that will last 2 hours running from the hard drive, or 3 hours running from memory stick. (If I run a simple app like SimpleText the whole time. No matter what I do, I cannot get the hard drive to stay 'spun down' when the system is running from the hard drive.)