Re: [MiNT] MiNT dynamic/static RAM-Disk

[Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net>]

on 11/5/13, 5:45 AM, Mathias Wittau wrote:

>> On 11/05/13 09:57, Miro Kropá?ek wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Mathias Wittau <wittau@lnxnt.org
>>> <mailto:wittau@lnxnt.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     Any ideas, anybody? Is there a possibility to define some "general
>>>     size"
>>>     for u:/ram/ for exampele? I have 512 MB and it would not be a
>>>     problem to
>>>     "loose" 128 MB for example.
>>> 
>>> It's been a long time ago but isn't the FreeMiNT ram disk (/ram)
>>> actually self managing? I.e. it is as big as your free RAM is, growing
>>> as needed. This is how I remember using it.
>> 
>> Yes, me too.
>> (...)
>> It will show you the available size of the ramdisk on the U: drive. Mine
>> shows this....
>> 
>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> u:/ 387616 8 387608 1% u:/
> 
> Of course it is self managing. But some programs seem to not be able to
> use it correctly. So even does Thing! 1.29. It always reports the recent
> size of already stored files, but not a single byte more, at last here at
> my computer.
> 
> So perhaps it is a FireBee issue, or just some dirty programs? But I would
> need a solution for real day to day work.
> 
> What can be done?

I'm using an even older version of Thing and it works fine. I have aranym
set at 64mb and Thing 1.27b correctly reports nearly all of that free at the
ramdisk. I have never had a problem with it.

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