Please excuse my ignorance here but if I right-click on RAMdisk after a fresh boot, then 'information', it says I have 80mb RAM.

It's a 128mb stick - surely Ambient isn't using 48mb?

Here too, and "avail" gives a similar number.

Don't forget it ain't just Ambient, but also Trance, the Trance-cache, Poseidon, CGX, MUI, the HAL, Quark .....

Yup, I have a 512 stick in and I only have 412 free after boot up.

OK, cheers guys.

Still seems a lot though......

It is not just Ambient and other stuff, I think setting up MMU tables takes quite good share of RAM. For example try Scout and look how much RAM you have got to use before Ambient etc.

use statline, it can show how much memory is availabe for the abox stuff, it can show how much memory you have at all (the difference between this both values is the Quark/kernel, ramdebuglog stuff etc.) and it shows how much memory is free currently (difference between that value and available abox memory is the memory which is used by Ambient, CGX, FileSystem buffers and the other programs you have started).

regards,
tokai

[ Edited by tokai on 2004/9/7 18:27 ]

Good evening guys,

@Tokaï, could statline give some informations about the graphic card, gpu use, memory use, etc...

Brumiga

@brumiga:

i bugged Frank Mariak about that already, but there is no public API for this. And it's IMHO understandable, that Frank does not give everyone access to some private CGX stuff.

You can use "sys:tools/showcgxconfig debug" to find out more about your gfx card.

regards,
tokai

I don't know how the following applies to MorphOS, being proprietary software. However --

The "Linux Guys" have a saying that free ram is wasted ram. You will want to have certain amounts of ram allocated for cache, buffers, etc. for a smoother user experience.

When your apps need ram, they ask the operating system. When ram is not available, paging (disk swapping) slows you down BAD. So unless your system is sluggish, unresponsive, with the hard drive constantly grinding away, you have "enough ram" and the 80mb or whatever number does not have a bearing on performance.