| From: | Michael Bourne |
| Date: | 19 Jan 2000 at 12:19:15 |
| Subject: | Re: Viewing Files And Ram Usage |
From: Michael Bourne <michael@circleware.org>
Hello Colin,
On Wednesday, you wrote:
> From: Colin Wenzel <colstv@hotkey.net.au>
> On 19-Jan-00, Marion E. Wyatt wrote:
>> From: "Marion E. Wyatt" <amiscorp@earthlink.net> On 18-Jan-00 at
>> 19:26:35, Michael Bourne wrote these words of wisdom: [snip]
>>> 3.1 didn't use chip on this system, 3.5 eats it...
>>> eg: (using OS3.5 def_icons)
>>> list a directory under 3.1, chip ram = 1 929 944 bytes
>>> remaining same directory under 3.5, chip ram = 713 232 bytes
>>> remaining
>>> And this is by icon. I find this scary....it's worse under
>>> "List By Name".
>>> Using 3.1 style def_icons makes for some improvement.
>> I bet you don't have WBC, WBCtrl or TweakWB installed with the
>> Fast memory option enabled do you? Makes a world of difference.
> I just dropped "WB2Fast" in the WBStartup drawer, no more
> excess chip mem usage..... !!!
> PS: The WB2Fast program is in the "Contributions" drawer
> on the 3.5 CD.
Same here. No more chip ram usage... just all in Fast, good thing
I have a lot.... :) (when one directory listing uses something
approaching 1MB ram...sheesh.)
> -------------------------------------
> Colin Wenzel. Australia.
Regards - from Brisbane...
Michael
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