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Offline Gulliver

Re: The Os 3.1.4 Thread
« Reply #29 from previous page: October 12, 2020, 01:06:44 AM »
Hi,

I tried to reproduce your issue on a clean 3.1.4(.1) system. But I could not. It just works as designed.

A 2 MB sample textfile (https://www.learningcontainer.com/sample-text-file/#2mb_text_file-2) loads fine and uses way less memory than what you describe.

Something is wrong exclusively in your system.
 
 

Offline Gulliver

Re: The Os 3.1.4 Thread
« Reply #30 on: October 12, 2020, 09:41:13 AM »
Mine has ansi ESC codes in it, for BOLD. Would that made a difference? What about the amount of lines? Mine has almost 67000.

It shouldn't.

But in any case,it does not hurt to try: if you can, share this file so that we can attempt to reproduce your issue one more time.
« Last Edit: October 12, 2020, 04:58:30 PM by Gulliver »
 

Offline Gulliver

Re: The Os 3.1.4 Thread
« Reply #31 on: October 12, 2020, 05:08:26 PM »
I was able to reproduce the issue with that specific file:

As you have well said it, that file contains too many escape codes. And you are forcing the datatype to display them. This requires much more memory than what your system has. The datatype will properly display that file if you had enough RAM on your system.

You may either just strip the escape codes from the file or get more RAM. 
« Last Edit: October 12, 2020, 05:09:03 PM by Gulliver »
 
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Offline Gulliver

Re: The Os 3.1.4 Thread
« Reply #32 on: October 13, 2020, 12:32:57 PM »
I was not able to reproduce the issue you mentioned.

Do you have a concrete way to reproduce it?

 

Offline Gulliver

Re: The Os 3.1.4 Thread
« Reply #33 on: October 16, 2020, 05:36:21 PM »
Going to change topics a moment.  Installing 3.1.4 on a 3000 with 3.1.4 roms.  Using a SCSItoSD interface for the scsi.  My dh0: drive is 20 gig.  I get a "error validating system: not enough memory" message and the disk won't format.  Is there a work around for this?  I've installed os3.1.4 on a 500 and a 4000 and haven't run into this particular problem.  The 500 didn't have a very large SD and the 4000 has 128 meg of memory.  My A3000 has 8 meg fast memory and 2 meg of chip. Suggestions?

Use a larger block size in HDToolBox and you will be fine.
Go for 4096 bytes per block and it willl solve your issue.
 

Offline Gulliver

Re: The Os 3.1.4 Thread
« Reply #34 on: October 19, 2020, 08:29:21 PM »
@Gulliver
When something is launched from Workbench, mostly by dblclick, the very icon stays active, selected, even if the launched app opens a new screen. I wish the icon gets deactivated as it is no longer in the focus. Can this made an option in the future release someday as it bothers me for ages, really?

I took a note to be discussed by the time we get to plan AmigaOS 3.3.
In any case, it sounds like something like that could be implemented as a commodity, or even as an ARexx script.
 

Offline Gulliver

Re: The Os 3.1.4 Thread
« Reply #35 on: October 19, 2020, 08:34:24 PM »
In the old days, memory requirements for validation were not such a common issue because storage devices were not as big as what they are today.

To estimate the amount of free memory required to validate a volume, 
you can perform the following equation:

((S / B) / 32) * 8 = Free memory required for validation

  S  is the volume size in bytes
  /  is the division sign
  *  is the multiplication sign
  () are parentheses required to solve the expression inside first
  B  are the bytes per block as set by HDToolBox. Sizes start at 512
     and are capped at 65536 bytes

Make sure that you round up the numbers before dividing as we don't
want floating point numbers getting in the way.

Examples:

A 500 MB partition with 512 bytes per block = 256 KB of RAM required
A 1 GB partition with 4096 bytes per block = 64 KB of RAM required
A 1 GB partition with 512 bytes per block = 0.5 MB of RAM required
A 64 GB partition with 512 bytes per block = 32 MB of RAM required
A 64 GB partition with 4096 bytes per block = 4 MB of RAM required

So always use the bigger blocks you can afford as you will save more
RAM at the expense of storage space.
 

Offline Gulliver

Re: The Os 3.1.4 Thread
« Reply #36 on: April 22, 2021, 10:24:29 PM »
is there a reason why AHI 4.18 does not work under AOS3.1.4.1 ?
It installed fine but the prefs does not show its window therefore no settings are saved...

I am following Novacoder advice to use this version over the latest one to get more out of the different engines he ported to 68k.

I also installed latest AmigaAMP v3.29 because it can play mod natively now but since AHI does not run/work AmigaAMP can not open the mod file ??


AHI works under 3.1.4. It has been thoroughly used and tested.
Your problem is somewhere else.