| From: | Colin Wenzel |
| Date: | 20 Jan 2000 at 14:10:54 |
| Subject: | Re: Viewing Files And Ram Usage |
From: Colin Wenzel <colstv@hotkey.net.au>
On 20-Jan-00, Paul Brazier wrote:
(below)
Try it, go & open the tools directory on your WB & watch
your chip mem disappear.
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Colin Wenzel. Australia.
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MADE WITH 'AMIGA' 4000T With O.S 3.1
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> From: Paul Brazier <mlpb@yebo.co.za>
>
> Hello Marion
>
> 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]
>
>>> Even OS3.1 standard 4 colour def_icons behave only marginally
>>> better although I've reverted to them. Here is an RTG system
>>> Picasso96 and I've simply never seen chip ram disappear so
> fast! MEW >> Fast ram usage is minimal, pity, I have plenty.
>
>>> A2000 060, PicassoIV, Pic96, *2MB* chip, 64MB fast, etc.
>
>>> Any ideas? It doesn't appear to be the def_icons, I changed
>>> back to 3.1, unless of course the memory is allocated
> anyway? - and MEW >> in chip ram
>
>>> 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
>>> 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 MEW >> 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
>> memory option enabled do you? Makes a world of difference.
>
> I don't use any of them and I have 1,860,528 chip left whilst I am
> writing this in Yam using CGX
>
>
>
> Regards Paul
Regards
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