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- From: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
- Subject: Re: Gremlins are munching my memory! (FastRam)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.150348.24088@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <crystal.726198900@glia>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 15:03:48 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
-
- >I can't find the memory muncher that is eating my Fast RAM :<
-
- >It seems like the amount of Fast Ram available to me on boot up keeps shrinking,
- >and I can't figure out where it is going... :<
-
- >I have a 2000HD, with 2.04, 1mg Agnus/2mg Fast using full Overscan and an
- >Interlaced screen on a monochrome monitor. I understand that Overscan and
- >Interlacing take up CHIP ram, but it is FAST RAM that is disappearing, and I'd
- >like to know just *what* the memory munchers are, and how much memory they
- >are using - so I can make intelligent decisions on what to delete for optimum
- >performance.
-
- >I've discovered the CLI commands "avail" and "status" as well as the shareware
- >program ARTM, but none of those will tell me just how MUCH memory is being
- >taken up by each individual item. :<
-
- >Also...
-
- >Is there a way to get programs to RELEASE all of the memory they snatch when you
- >load them? It's frustrating to have 900K, load a program that takes 150K and
- >only releases 100K of it when you close it, leaving 50K still in memory that
- >can't be accessed. :< This plays havoc with Pagestream when I want to work
- >with large files or graphics and the memory that was there earlier is now
- >unavailable... :<
-
- >And I noticed that running "status" munched a bunch of memory and didn't
- >let go of it when I exited the shell.
-
- >I *know* I can just buy some more Ram and solve the above problems, but money
- >is tight right now, and I'd like to learn where my memory is going...
-
- >Thanks...
- > Crystal
- > :>
-
- I think that the problem could be that the programs you run open some
- .libraries ... Because the libraries are not always flushed from the mem when
- they are not used WHICH IS FRUSTRATING :) The solution is to add an argument
- to your loadwb command in your startup-sequence. Like "LOADWB -DEBUG" (or is
- it "LOADWB DEBUG"?) Anyway, when you do this an extra menu will appear next
- to the original 4 in the workbench with two items (ROMWack and flushlibs) ...
- So when you feel that something is munching your memory just select the
- flushlibs item :-)
-
- /Carsten
-
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