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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Using up all Chip RAM.
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 01:24:47 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Matt Harrell (mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com) wrote:
- : I have been running AMosaic since I upgraded my A1200 with an
- : accelerator card. I think that I have everything working now, but
- : AMosaic seems to be a serious hog with Chip RAM. I constantly run out
- : of Chip RAM when running it. Is it normal to run out of Chip RAM so
- : easily, or is this a "feature" of AMosaic? I have great difficulties
- : with external viewers running out of RAM. This just doesn't make
- : sense to me. I am running a 7-bit (128 color), 800x600 Workbench, and
- : I run AMosaic on the Workbench screen (although, I've also tried it on
- : it's own screen). When I start AMosaic, I have about 1.3MB of Chip
- : RAM left. I don't have problems runing out of Chip RAM with any other
- : programs that I've noticed. I have tried IBrowse, but it crashes so I
- : use Mosaic until the "real" IBrowse is finished (and hopefully quite
- : stable).
-
- You have fast-ram as well?
- If not, AMosaic will use Chip ram for it's cache. I'm not sure but I think
- the size of the cache defaults to 750Kb. Set the cache to something less.
- That should fix the problem. If you have enough free fastmem then AMosaic is
- supposed to use that. If it doesn't.... Who knows..
-
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
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