2MB+ ChipRAM

[cosmicfrog]

yay I`m happy seen a workbench with over a gig of ram

see earlyer post for explanation about contigous ram

seems like windows is crap at keepin mem unfragmented

wow what you do with 8gig o ram

usend vt for image viewing then started usin visarge

[rkauer]

Using 8Mb chip? easy!

Set it on UAE

BTW: I hate visage, for no reason at all. Just don't like it.

[TCD]

@RedskullDC
Now that is really interesting. With 8 GB RAM and a 64 bit OS I thought it would be no problem to set so much mem inside WinUAE. But since you got over 1 GB I guess it has to do with the Windows memory management. Is it approximately the same amount of RAM when you try it for a second time?
Btw : Nice system you got there

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by RedskullDC

Hi CyberDruid,


Running X64 Vista here with 8Gb installed.

Using latest WinUAE, can select 1.5GB Z3 ram with the slider, but it doesn't appear to get that much:





No Idea if this is a Windows bug , or WinUAE limit.

Red

Neither.

WinUAE is 32-bit program and 32-bit programs can't reserve more than about 2G contiguous RAM (JIT needs all memory in huge contiguous chunk)

btw, you asked more than 1.5G because total amount required is 256M (UAE Z3 starts at 0x10000000) +1.5G+<size of RTG RAM>.

[RedskullDC]

Hi Toni and CyberDruid,

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Neither.

WinUAE is 32-bit program and 32-bit programs can't reserve more than about 2G contiguous RAM (JIT needs all memory in huge contiguous chunk)

btw, you asked more than 1.5G because total amount required is 256M (UAE Z3 starts at 0x10000000) +1.5G+<size of RTG RAM>.

Thanks for the explanation, makes perfect sense.

Just an interesting exercise, can't imagine ever needing more than 256MB on the Amiga side.

If I increase/decrease the amount of RTG ram allocated, it alters the amount of Z3 ram that is possible.

The maximum possible Z3 size I could obtain was 1280MB when RTG ram was set to 32MB.

Thanks for your continuing efforts with WinUAE incidentally!

Cheers,
Red

[RedskullDC]

Hi Cosmicfrog,

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

yay I`m happy seen a workbench with over a gig of ram
...
wow what you do with 8gig o ram

I'm currently employed doing a mix of hardware/software design work.
Some of the tools we use come in 64bit versions, and chew up memory/processor cores at an alarming rate!

Also need to use VMWare Workstation frequently, to test our software on a variety of targets.

Cheers,
Red

[cosmicfrog]

kewl all that lovely mem and procesors been used for something useful

VMware i loved from first time i saw/used it

tar toni got a better idea now of what the limits are on ram and T`ings

ps my first hard drive was 60meg with 2meg chip and 8meg fast that all add up to a wopping 70meg !!