| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 8 Mar 2001 at 23:13:04 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: Stall while loading |
Hello Todd
On 08-Mar-01, Bruner, Todd wrote:
> During my boot up process, after about 30 sec., DOpus II Magellan (5.8?)
> starts loading. I think this is normal.
> At about 50% in the progress bar, progress seems to stop, but my Amiga keeps
> whirling away.
> After another 30 sec DOpus completes, and I am in the workbench replacement
> mode.
> All works fine.
>
> 1. The "apparent" stall and longer time to load occurred after I installed
> the latest from Magnum Opus.
> Is this normal? Again all works fine.
Guilty as charged. :)
The progress bar doesn't move across any further while DOpus is loading the
filetypes. The reason is that it doesn't know how many there is. The only
ways to speed up loading is the normal faster CPU and hard drive. As I load
from a fast SCSI drive and on an 060 it's not too much of a problem. You
could also remove those obscure filetypes you don't use, there are rather a
lot. :)
> 2. My RAM: ENV directory has lots of stuff in it. I suppose if I wanted to
> reduce the amount of stuff that is going into RAM:ENV I could remove the
> .prefs and module(?) files from ENVARC (sp) and store them until I need
> them. For example the adpf (SP) file is almost 1.M (7xx k or 8xx k - I
> rounded up).
>
> Are these two issues related?
The more files in RAM:ENV you have the longer it will take to boot, they wont
however, make DOpus startup any slower unless directly related.
>
> Apologies in advance if Magnum Opus stuff is not discussed here.
> R, Todd
It sure is. :)
Regards