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- From: kroberts@rand.nidlink.com (kroberts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Ecessive RAM use....
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 20:59:34 GMT
- Organization: NetLink, Inc.
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- My A500 has a total of 7.5 Megs of memeory but when boot up is complete
- over 2 megs are in use. Even from a cold start (compter off) and booting
- from a "no startup-sequence" option, and therefore no workbench to consume
- chip ram
- and no WBstartup programs being run, I have 68Kbytes chip ram and 1.3Mbytes
- fast ram in use at the cli prompt - as reported by the 'avail' command. By
- the way, 'avail' does correctly tally all of the ram in my system and that
- which it reports as 'in use' is in fact unavailable. My system consists of
- an A500+ with 1 meg of chip ram on the motherboard, 512 K of chip in the
- trap door, 2 megs of fast ram on the Alpha Power AT-Bus hard drive
- controller, and 4 megs of fast ram on the M-Tec 68020 accelerator. All of
- the ram checks out as functional according to 'MBRtest' which is a nice
- memory tester program which comes with the VXL accelerator. Removing the
- trap door memory makes no difference to the 'in use' numbers. Removing
- external floppy drives makes no difference either. Likewise, switching out
- the drive controller's memory does not change the 'in use' amount after
- startup. Soft booting into OS 2.1 gives the same result as booting into OS
- 3.1. And finally, switching out all external ram and using the original
- 68000 cpu I get out of memory errors on startup. Does anybody have any
- ideas of what could possibly be using so much memory even when booting
- directly into the cli?
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- Ken
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