New Message: Re: More RAM = poor performance?

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By: Jeremy Reichman (jjracc+frontier at osfmail.isc.rit.edu)

None of my servers has that much (250+) MB of RAM, so I'm unable to test that.

But I did want to say that the 8600 is a system that is officially unsupported for OS X (any version) and you may have difficulty upgrading to X on it. I tried upgrading a 7500 (with Newer Tech G3/250 card) just for fun, and wasted a whole weekend. Tips:

* Get a multisync monitor (X needs a large display for its setup assistant, and you can't get by without answering those questions)
* Get Unsupported Utility X and put it on a local file share if you can; it is listed at VersionTracker
* Get the full 10.1 CD if you can; if you have to upgrade to it, you'll just waste an extra 45 minutes of your life
* Make sure you have full physical access to the machine, because you may need to pull the PRAM battery at some point
* Have a Mac OS 9 CD (9.0-9.2.1) hanging around for emergency force-booting
* Remove all PCI cards before you start, and plan on running without video cards after the X upgrade unless you have a relatively recent ATI card installed
* Be prepared for your old Mac to act weirder than it ever has before; this is apparently normal with OS X on these vintage machines
* Be prepared to boot in verbose mode to see why your Mac is stalling at startup (Command-Shift-V at startup, you can also tell Unsupported Utility X to have the system always boot in verbose mode)

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