| From: | John S. Burger |
| Date: | 17 Jan 2000 at 22:18:24 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Memory Use with BB1<good news update?> |
From: "John S. Burger" <jsburger@xmission.com>
On or about 14-Jan-00 12:50:08 Vytautas typed the following words
about "[amigaOS3_5] Re: Memory Use with BB1<good news update?>". My reply is thus...
Hi Vytautas,
> From: Vytautas <brotheramiga@takas.lt>
> Hello John
> On 13-Jan-00, you wrote:
>>> This triggered a memory here. BB1 includes a new HDToolBox, which
>>> now defaults to higher buffer and blocksize settings. These, of
>>> course, take more memory. You haven't by chance changed either of
>>> these settings for your hard drives, have any of you?
>>
>> No I havn't. How many buffers would one have to set to use up 7 megs of
>> fast RAM. :<) The problem is definately StackAttack. Using it with the
>> BB1 update sucks up 7 megs more Fast RAM than using it with either 3.1
>> or the original 3.5 release. It is reproducable here every time.
>>
>> Since I never had a stack problem that I know of before using
>> StackAttack I have stoped using it.
> I can tell you that this is not problem of StackAttack. You just have to
> stop using such a high values :) 200Kb is to big setting for
> StackAttack. Imagine : StackAttack checks for programs stack and
> if stack is <200000 then it sets it to 200000. Your startup runs more
> then 10 programs which don't quit (Iprefs for example). Every program
> uses 200000bytes for stack. It's *not a bug*. You ppl (I'm not calling
> names ;) just missuse StackAttack. Try setting that value for something
> lower, like instead of 200000 set 10000 and all should be o.k. :)
> Atleast it works here :)
OK, I tried setting the MIN stack in StackAttack to 10K instead of 200K. It
does not use as much RAM as when it is set to 200K. However it still uses
more than OS 3.1 or straight 3.5 when set to 200K.
So, it seems that there is still a problem with BB1. Whether it is BB1's
fault or StackAttack's needs to be answered by the OS team I guess.
The bottom line is that something change in BB1 that affected StackAttack.
John
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