Re: [MiNT] Memory protection and speed

[atari@bright.net (Lonny Pursell)]

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 10:23:24 +1300, Mario Becroft wrote:

>As I think I mentioned before on this mailing list, I found that on the TT
>memory protection causes the system to run excessively slowly. In
>particular programs take a very long time to load.
>
>The time between typing a command and when the command starts running in
>the usual way seems to be just under 1 second, whereas without memory
>protection there is no delay. This makes shell scripts, for example,
>execute extremely slowly.
>
>I notice that programs configured to load in ST RAM instead of TT RAM
>exhibit a slightly shorter (but still very noticable) delay.
>
>I tried reducing the INITIALMEM variable in mint.cnf to 2 megabytes but it
>did not make any difference. I have a total of 66 megabytes of RAM in my
>machine (64 megabytes TT RAM and 2 megabytes ST RAM).
>
>Is this a limitation inherent in memory protection in MiNT (which, as it
>seems to me, renders it marginally useful), is it a bug or am I just doing
>something wrong? Do other people notice this problem?

I noticed it booted alot slower last time I tried it, didn't use
it for long periods of time, but I did notice loading times took
longer.

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