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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 12 Feb 96 10:13:59 +0000
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- Hi, Paul Copsey , on 11-Feb-96 01:25:11 you scribbled....
- >John Hendrikx (john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- >> In a message of 09 Feb 96 Craig Matchan wrote to All:
- >>
- >> >> :I love MUI very much myself ! But did you ever try to DELETE ENV:MUI
- >> >> :ALL and then look at you Memory gauge again ? What did I see the last
- >> >> :time ?
- >> >> :400kb more M.E.M.O.R.Y !! Yep, 400kb ! This is nearly half a meg.
- >>
- >> >> Don't use the ram disk for keeping ENV:... use the hard drive.
- >>
- >> CM> I agree. When I really looked, my ENV: was using up 600k. I have now
- >>
- >> 600 kilobytes? Could you please send me a LIST of your ENV dir? I'm
- >> REALLY interested to see what stuff is in there. My ENV dir is 20000
- >> bytes, containing 73 files and 11 directories. The MUI part is less than
- >> 3K. The largest file ENV: contained was 1146 bytes.
-
- >My env: contains 33226 bytes of files, but actually uses 138240 bytes
-
- I bet you didn't test that.... btw it would take up that space if your HD had
- a blocksize of 1024
-
- >because of the way filesystems work. If I had Env: inRam: (I use
- >statram,which has a block size of 512, as opposed to Ram:'s 1024)
- >then env:would swallow 247808 bytes.
-
- "A Litlle knowledge is dangerous"
-
- Yes what you say a bout filesystems+blocksize is true generally...but not for
- ram:
-
- It only reports to external tasks that it has a blocksize of 1024...it doesnt
- use that internally...
-
- Test it.
-
-
- >Even a 1 byte file in ram: will take 1k to store.
- Try it
- >Paul
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- Mike
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