New A4000, some questions...

[Holley]

I'm usually left with under half of that when I boot up

:-? Errr, there's something eating that up which shouldn't be!  I just have 3.9 (with Amidock, Glowicons etc), CGX4 and MUI ... and very little else at startup!  It's basic, and takes up very little memory.  CGX helps as it makes use of the graphics card memory though.

[zipper]

Check your HD buffers - and other drives, too. I'm using about 10 MB for buffers and caches...

[Imerion]

My system uses about 1 mb on boot. But I have quite a lot of programs starting. Like MCP, KingCon, NewIcons and similiar...

[TjLaZer]

@alberonn

Check out my image gallery for my screenshot.

Here is a direct link.  I guess I had 237MB left... lol

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=501

[X-ray]

@ TjLaZeR:

That Workbench is stunning, mate. One of the best I've ever seen.
What screenmode is that, and waht GFX card are you using?

[TjLaZer]

@xray,

I am using 1024X768 and I use Picasso 96 on a Cybervision 64.  It runs nice and fast especially at 66MHz.

[alberonn]

Let's see, 10 HD partitions, that could be partly responsible, I have Miami always running with my DSL connection, and several programs in my WBStartup:

     WBStartup-disabled (dir)
  AmiDock                          AmiDock.info
  ASyncWB                          ASyncWB.info
  BenchTrash                       Clock
  Clock.info                       clock1.htm
  clock2.htm                       DefIcons
  DefIcons.info                    DPMSManager
  DPMSManager.info                 Exchange
  Exchange.info                    Facts
  Facts.info                       FontPLPatch
  FontPLPatch.info                 Hellas
  Hellas.info                      KillClick2
  KillClick2.info                  LeftyMouse
  LeftyMouse.info                  MUIPopPatch
  MUIPopPatch.info                 OmniScsiCtrl
  OmniScsiCtrl.info                RAWBInfo
  rawbinfo.info                    setKEYandMENU.info
  setKeyAndMenu.rexx               StartMiami
  StartMiami.info                  TelserMon
  TelserMon.info                   WBStartup-disabled.info

My User-Startup has a buncha assigns, ect. And I'm running a PIV 800x600 16 bit screenmode with a full-color JPEG backdrop.

Yup, I think I probally have way too much drek runnin'... LOL

[X-ray]

More about memory....

I now have a similar setup to TJ:

A4KT
2mb chip
16mb mobo
128mb Cyberstorm MKII
128mb DKB 3128

As far as I can tell, my memory is in this priority order:

Cyberstorm 128 (priority 40), 16 mobo (priority 30), DKB 128 (priority 20) and lastly the chip 2mb (priority -10).

I know the Cyberstorm ram is the fastest here. Is the mobo ram faster than the DKB (assuming the same simms for arguments sake)??

[X-ray]

@ all

I sorted it out.

I found the address ranges with Mempri (by Barry McConnell)
and then ran Axel Dorfler's Memtest that told me the speed of the tested RAM according to start address:

Cyberstorm 128mb:    30.7 mb/s
mobo 16mb:           14.7 mb/s
DKB 128mb:           10.4 mb/s
2mb chip:            3.5  mb/s

@ TJ  How do your results compare?

[TjLaZer]

Cyberstorm MKII 68060 @ 66MHz 128MB:             31.21MB/s
A4000 Motherboard 16MB with speed ramsey:   16.10MB/s
DKB 3128 128MB RAM Card ZIII:              10.78MB/s
2MB Chip RAM:                               6.18MB/s

Woot!

[PaSha]

@Imerion:
By the looks of it, you have 4 MB (4 1MB 72-pin SIMMs) on the A4000 motherboard, and 8 MB (8 1MB 30-pin SIMMs) on the SCSI board. The SCSI board is maxed out, and these 8 MB are rather slow.
The A4000 motherboard supports a maximum 16 MB of fastram, in the form of four 4MB 72-pin SIMMs.

-Paul

[X-ray]

@ TJ

I take it your results are better because your O60 runs at 66mHZ while mine is currently 50mHz?