AdPro memory

[Abou27]

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...

[Abou27]

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:-)

[Abou27]

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?

[Abou27]

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...

[Abou27]

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!