| From: | Andreas Mixich |
| Date: | 9 Mar 2001 at 05:13:35 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Stall while loading |
Bruner, Todd wrote in a Mail about "[D5] Stall while loading":
> 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.
MagnumDopus installs a *lot* of filetypes on your system. They are
all loaded now into memory. This consumes a lot of time.
To quicken the Dopus5 boot-process it is advised not to have file-
types being loaded you do not really need.
> 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).
apdf (SP) file ? What is that ?
One of ther very best Amiga utilities/patches I have ever installed
(note the maximes) is HappyENV. There are two ways to use it, but
both require you to download HappyEnv from Aminet:
One is plain HappyENV package. It crashed here, so I changed to
using it with MCP, that makes use of the happyenv-handler. Now it
works.
You can drop the line in startup-sequence, where ENVARC is copied to ENV:
Then, with the happy env handler, each time an ENV var is requested, happyEnv copies it to ENVARC: My ENV: was over 4 MB ins ize, now it is a few hundred KB. And boot-up is much (!) quicker. All you need
to do is creating ENV:subdir/ for things that are needed by the system before HappyEnv get initialized. Then unassign ENV:
Good bye,