Hi Tamar,

The link Al Doman shared seems to indicate that the 1/3 rule is no longer a good rule of thumb. It seems that best performance is to keep this value under 512MB. I have not yet had time to test the lowered values (right now, it is set to 1024MB).

Albert

>>Hi Al,
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>>I am going to check out having too much memory assigned to the foreground memory - I think I have it set to about 1024MB. See my other thread replying to Naoto.
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>No idea if this is still appropriate today, but back when Mac Rubel did lots of experimentation on this stuff, he found that about 1/3 of physical memory worked best.
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>Tamar