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- From: jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 12 Feb 96 06:13:51 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >My env: contains 33226 bytes of files, but actually uses 138240 bytes
- >because of the way filesystems work. If I had Env: in Ram: (I use
- >statram, which has a block size of 512, as opposed to Ram:'s 1024)
- >then env: would swallow 247808 bytes.
-
- No, it wouldn't.
-
- >Even a 1 byte file in ram: will take 1k to store.
-
- Try testing it. RAM:'s filesystem is different. It uses a fixed amount
- of memory (136 bytes) per file plus the length of the file, or
- thereabouts.
-
- >Paul
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