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Title: AdPro memory
Post by: Abou27 on February 06, 2006, 04:46:58 PM

Hi everyone.

Today I decided to use AdPro to batch process a few jpgs (resize for web use) but I have come up against a brick wall.  A "not enough memory" error occurs when trying to load any of the images.  They are only about 200k and the error message suggests that 7Mb is required for load.  I have a CSMKII with 128Mb - I thought this would be enough:-)  It's been a while since I have used AdPro but I don't recall these problems before. Mind you, I ain't no elephant. Anyone else experienced this or got any suggestions?

Cheers;-)

A4000 CSMKII 060 128Mb, Picollo SD64, Amber SD, Algor Pro...

Title: Re: AdPro memory
Post by: amigagr on February 06, 2006, 04:58:44 PM

meaby it means chip memory? if you have os3,5 or 3,9 there are some setting that allow you to load all the images to fast ram and not to the chip

Title: Re: AdPro memory
Post by: Abou27 on February 06, 2006, 05:10:40 PM

I don't think it would have been such a successful program if it just used CHIP memory:-) Anyway most is still available: 1.5Mb. There is 137Mb of FAST mem left.  Maybe it can't deal with so much RAM:-?

Thanks for the suggestion:-)

Title: Re: AdPro memory
Post by: AmiDude on February 06, 2006, 09:37:51 PM

@Abou27

Click once on the AdPro icon. Then Choose "Icons/Information" from the Workbench toolbar.
Now give the "MAXMEM=xxxxxxx" tooltype a larger
amount of memory. That should do the trick!
 :-)

Title: Re: AdPro memory
Post by: Abou27 on February 06, 2006, 09:55:49 PM

Thank you; I have now loaded my troublesome jpg and AdPro is  currently batch processing! Nice one:-) I'm afraid I misread the manual and confused myself somewhat regarding that tooltype:roll: I have increased the amount by quite a bit but now the question is whether to bracket the tooltype or what a suitable maximum is?

Title: Re: AdPro memory
Post by: amigagr on February 06, 2006, 10:50:21 PM

@AmiDude: i have to use adpro so many years that if i sould need it now i couldn't even imagine this trick :-)

-edit-
1994 amiga 2000 8mb ram at work :-)


@Abou27: ''now the question is whether to bracket the tooltype or what a suitable maximum is?''

what do you mean exactly?

Title: Re: AdPro memory
Post by: Abou27 on February 06, 2006, 11:06:24 PM

Quote

amije wrote:
@Abou27: ''now the question is whether to bracket the tooltype or what a suitable maximum is?''

what do you mean exactly?

According to the manual, AdPro, by default, will allocate 128k less than the largest contiguous fast mem block available.  However, would this be a good idea when operating with an amount of ram that far exceeds what was available at the time?  So, what I meant was, should one disable the maxmem tooltype with ()s and let AdPro revert to default or, if specifying a value, what is a reasonable amount?  Sorry, became less clear between my head and keyboard...

Title: Re: AdPro memory
Post by: amigagr on February 06, 2006, 11:23:36 PM

ok i see, i think that if your memory is only one 128mb dimm you don't have to worry about the limitation to the largest free block. from the other hand in my blizzard i have 2 32mb dimms but the amiga(or blizzard?) use them as one 64mb dimm, and because your accel is from phase5 too maybe it's working the same way. you can check this with sysinfo.

Title: Re: AdPro memory
Post by: Abou27 on February 06, 2006, 11:31:52 PM

Yeah, a bit of a weird one.

Anyway, I set maxmem to about 60Mb for the initial batch run test.  It went fine apart from Workbench becoming inaccessible - blank screen with Ami+N. Reboot necessary.

Intriguing - will experiment further tomorrow!