| From: | Alex |
| Date: | 24 Jan 2000 at 19:26:08 |
| Subject: | Re: Memory usage |
From: Alex <neurodancer@gmx.de>
Hello John!
On 24-Jan-00, you wrote about "Re: [amigaOS3_5] Re: Memory usage":
> etc. The original question was about Fast RAM not Chip RAM. WBCtrl does
> not do a thing for Fast RAM usage AFAIK.
It doesn't help cure the "problem" - I just wonder if we see a problem
where none is: OS3.5 uses chipmem. Why? Maybe Olaf or Martin can explain
that. Apparently, the new icon system requires more memory. As Martin
Steigerwald explained to us, they set it to chipmem usage because there is
no 100% safe way of detecting an RTG environment, well, OK. The switch is
there. You use WBCtrl to switch the OS to use fastram for that very
purpose, and guess what, IT WORKS! :) Fastmem is USED!
As for the "real" fastram consumption... you have a "ROM update" *file* on
your HD, that file is loaded into RAM, its initialization will require
more RAM ...*all* of the new OS/WB functions must be somewhere in your
RAM, so it will indeed use RAM.
Just my two cents.
[Kick v1.x was a 256K ROM - Kick v2.x/3.x is a 512K ROM - the size
*doubled*, yet no one worried because it was a ROM. Or from "the other
side" - Win 3.x required 8MB RAM, Win 95 requires 32M. People bought not
only more RAM but also bigger and faster computers and HDs, both on the
Amiga, the PCs, the MACs, etc. etc.]
Humphries' Law of Bicycling:
The shortest route has the steepest hills.
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