memory hog
 

my miggy 2000 is a darn memory pig

i need help please

i have a 030 gvp card no simms on the card
i have a retina video card
i have a xsurf ethernet card as well
my fast ram said 8MB
my chip ram said 300KB
it is a 512K
when i open up my workbech it eats up all the chip ram goes to 12,000 bites
and can not open any thing
i have os 3.5 on it as well
please help me i'm very stumped no how to flush the memory to get it all back so i can run things:banghead:guru:help

when booting in install disk 3.1 it show up as 512k chip ram when reboot back to 3.5 show up as less any ideas would be helpful

That's just normal behaviour. Your WB 3.1 disk has a screen mode of 640x256 with 4 colors, i.e. it needs 40 KB chip-ram. Your 3.5 WB has a screen mode of 640x512 with 16 colors, i.e. it needs 160 kb chip-ram. On WB 3.1 each 4-color icon may need around 200 bytes chip-RAM. On WB 3.5 each palette-mapped icon needs ~ 2500 bytes chip-RAM.

Reduce size and depth of the workbench screen. Disable colored icons in Prefs/Workbench.

is there a way to keep the depth and screen size
is that the video cards job to free up the memory to the motherboard so it can function
and maintain 512k of fast ram or am i going about this wrong in line of thinking like my linux box :sad so how do i add more chip ram with the hardware i have ?:nuts

my depth is 726x256 colors is 256 card can do 16.8 million but does not show it wb 3.5

Check Contribution directory of the OS 3.5 CD. There should be the wbctrl program which has an option to store icons in FastRAM. Gfx card display should not need ChipRAM.