How come I get the GC cursor a lot, Indie crashes a lot, etc.?
Frequent GCing (cursor changes to the letters “GC”) is *not* normal and if it’s occurring it’s slowing down your work substantially. It’s happening because you’re running out of memory. You need to give Indie more memory, in one of two ways: If you get frequent GCing that gets worse the longer you play: • Increase the total amount of memory allocated to Indie in the Finder. (Use the “Get Info” window on the tool.) Once you’re using big graphics and movies, which I assume you are now, you’ll want to go up to about 16000K. Remember that you’ll need to do this to every new tool version you download! Or, if you get a lot of GCing at the beginning, but less and less the longer you play, then: • Increase the default Mac heap size for your GBS. It’s a slot in the GBS preferences object (down at the bottom of the Objects menu). 6000 is a good number to try for a reasonably large GBS. You only have to set this once for your GBS; the setting is saved in your GBS file. Usually having insufficient
