| From: | Leon Davidoff |
| Date: | 28 Jan 2000 at 22:22:16 |
| Subject: | Re: Memory usage |
From: Leon Davidoff <leond@paralynx.com>
Hi Bob,
On 27-Jan-00, Kennedy, Bob wrote:
KB> From: "Kennedy, Bob" <Bob.Kennedy@ssa.gov>
KB>> -----Original Message-----
KB>> From: Leon Davidoff
KB>>
KB>> The other night I did a size check of my ENV: directory in
KB>> RAM:. Wow! I was surprised to see it was over 1 MB. I just
KB>> checked my 3.1 Env-Archive and it's was a still surprisingly
KB>> large 680 kB. I assume the difference can be mostly
KB>> accounted for by the use of GlowIcons.
KB>>
KB>> Leon
KB>>
KB> Hi Leon,
KB> When I installed 3.5 on my home system, I griped because my ram usage at
KB> boot had doubled. By dumping some of the unnecessary default icons from the
KB> ENV archive I cut it down some.
KB> I saw your post (above) and booted my systems at work. These run pretty
KB> vanilla Workbenches, but have lots of graphics related prefs. (Toasters,
KB> Lightwave, IFX, Adpro, and more) The Ram Disk on the 3.0 A4000D contains
KB> 88KB. The 060 3.1 A2000 has 92KB. The champ is an 040 A2000 OS2.1 with the
KB> Ami-Link video hardware/software added in at 138KB. The A4000T is down right
KB> now, but IIRC had less than 300KB with OS3.5.
KB> Please, this is not intended as a put down. But...WHAT THE HECK DO YOU HAVE
KB> IN ENV THAT TAKES UP SO MUCH SPACE?
KB> I'm truly curious.
No problem.
I did some looking around.
First off I confirmed a 'bug' in DiskMaster I'd suspected before. (I'm reporting it right away...) When checking the size of a directory in RAM: or the same directory and contents on hard disk, different values are reported. It's not surprising because the data isn't stored in the same way, but there should be a way of having DM compensate and return the expected value.
So it means I'm not taking up quite so much room in RAM:. The Env-archive directory is a little over 700k. That's still pretty big.
I need go through and eliminate directories created by programs I installed then got rid of. I also have a number of Aweb3_oldx directories. Etc. That takes up about half the 700K.
The other half is strictly the sys directory full of 144 icons. Most of them are 2-3 K each. I'm sure I could clean that up too...
Leon
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