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- From: geohei@ibm.net (Georges Heinesch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,demon.tech.amiga
- Subject: Re: Is MUI processor intensive?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 10:36:05 GMT
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- In a message of 03-Feb-96 03:02:05, Don Schmelling wrote:
-
- DS> I used to have this happen occasionally myself. The data stream used to
- DS> just stop. Now quite often if I have a problem (guru), the data stream
- DS> does not stop, at least it does not stop if I do not tell the computer to
- DS> reboot.
-
- DS> I have to turn my psu off to reboot sence my computer does not
- DS> reboot correctly (warmboot). This deletes everything that is in
- DS> ram like my dynamic ip number. (ppp0IPLocal, ppp0IPRemote)
-
- DS> When I noticed this problem most, was when I used:
- DS> SetCPU >NIL: FASTROM CACHE
- ^^^^^^^
- This is very likely since my impression is, that 8n1 is capable of random
- memory write operations. With a memory protected Amiga OS (or correctly
- programmed 8n1 ;), this would not happen.
-
- If the ROM is copied to the RAM, gurus should become more frequent (which
- seeme to be the case).
-
- DS> Sence I started using:
- DS> SetCPU >NIL: FASTROM INST CACHE
- DS> I have not noticed the problem much, if at all. At least IMHO.
- DS> I wonder if it has something to do with DataCache (Burst)
- DS> Or perhaps it has something to do with the MMU being used.
-
- Very hard to say; could possibly be.
-
- DS> I know that I cannot change Prefs/Time settings while I have
- DS> SetCPU >NIL: FASTROM running. As soon as I boot up with a
- DS> setting in SetCPU that does not have the FASTROM option set
- DS> I can change the Prefs/Time settings as I see fit.
-
- Well, here I start to loose track ...
-
- All my remarks above were related to the 8n1.device. But here, I don't see
- the connection to the 8n1.device.
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- Cu
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