Re: memory-gobbling on Virtual Acorn

2016-08-21 Thread Jim Nagel
Bryan Hogan wrote on 20 Aug: > You've missed out several important bits of information: > - what version of VRPC SA > - what version of RISC OS 4.02 > - how much memory is currently allocated to VRPC was 16M (dunno how it ever got set so low), now 256M > - how much memory Netsurf is gobbling a

Re: memory-gobbling on Virtual Acorn

2016-08-21 Thread Jim Nagel
Dave Symes wrote on 20 Aug: > Open the Model.cfg file in a text editor. > Look for the [Ram] entry and change accordingly. Many thanks, Dave. I think that has done the trick. Was puzzled at finding TWO [Ram] entries in the file. From memory: [Ram] base = 0x100 16Mb

Re: memory-gobbling on Virtual Acorn

2016-08-20 Thread Bryan Hogan
In message <3f4747b255@abbeypress.net> Jim Nagel wrote: > I'm using Virtual RiscPC on my ol' Windows XP laptop while away from > base. Various wrinkles of this setup are still unfamiliar to me. > One is that Netsurf (recent, #3538) too quickly eats up all the free > memory. > Wha

Re: memory-gobbling on Virtual Acorn

2016-08-20 Thread cj
In article , Dave Higton wrote: > In message <3f4747b255@abbeypress.net> > Jim Nagel wrote: > >I'm using Virtual RiscPC on my ol' Windows XP laptop while away > >from base. Various wrinkles of this setup are still unfamiliar > >to me. > > > >One is that Netsurf (recent, #3538)

Re: memory-gobbling on Virtual Acorn

2016-08-20 Thread Brian Jordan
In article , Dave Higton wrote: > In message <3f4747b255@abbeypress.net> > Jim Nagel wrote: [Snip] > Recent (as I type this) is #3672. I have #3672 here as well. I have just taken a look at the Jenkins NetSurf changes page and the most recent version reported there is #3543 (M

Re: memory-gobbling on Virtual Acorn

2016-08-20 Thread Dave Higton
In message <3f4747b255@abbeypress.net> Jim Nagel wrote: >I'm using Virtual RiscPC on my ol' Windows XP laptop while away from >base. Various wrinkles of this setup are still unfamiliar to me. > >One is that Netsurf (recent, #3538) too quickly eats up all the free >memory. Recent

Re: memory-gobbling on Virtual Acorn

2016-08-20 Thread Brian
In article , Peter Young wrote: > On 19 Aug 2016 Jim Nagel wrote: > > I'm using Virtual RiscPC on my ol' Windows XP laptop while away from > > base. Various wrinkles of this setup are still unfamiliar to me. > > One is that Netsurf (recent, #3538) too quickly eats up all the free > > memor

Re: memory-gobbling on Virtual Acorn

2016-08-20 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 10:20:40AM +0100, Peter Young wrote: > On 19 Aug 2016 Jim Nagel wrote: > > > I'm using Virtual RiscPC on my ol' Windows XP laptop while away from > > base. Various wrinkles of this setup are still unfamiliar to me. > > Just a silly point, maybe. Why use NetSurf when you

Re: memory-gobbling on Virtual Acorn

2016-08-20 Thread Peter Young
On 19 Aug 2016 Jim Nagel wrote: > I'm using Virtual RiscPC on my ol' Windows XP laptop while away from > base. Various wrinkles of this setup are still unfamiliar to me. > One is that Netsurf (recent, #3538) too quickly eats up all the free > memory. > What can I do to avoid this? I guess I

Re: Memory still not being released

2014-08-30 Thread Michael Drake
On 30/08/14 10:42, Steve Fryatt wrote: > I think it's worth adding that the "many other apps [which] manage to > release their DAs when documents are closed", referred to by Chris, > are almost certainly using some kind of sliding block heap (such as > the ubiquitous flexlib for C) to manage their

Re: Memory still not being released

2014-08-30 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 30 Aug, Michael Drake wrote in message <54010c15.8040...@netsurf-browser.org>: > So that's how NetSurf deals with memory. On RISC OS you have a further > issue. NetSurf uses UnixLib, which implements the memory allocation stuff > using DAs. If a DA contains contents 1, 2 and 3, and they

Re: Memory still not being released

2014-08-29 Thread Michael Drake
On 29/08/14 23:05, cj wrote: > I think this problem has been raised on a number of occasions, > probably for more than a year. The comment that has come back is that > RISC OS has appalling memory management routines and not much can be > done. Many other apps manage to release their DAs when do

Re: Memory still not being released

2014-08-29 Thread cj
In article <5400c022.3000...@netsurf-browser.org>, Michael Drake wrote: > You say "persist" and "still"; is there some context for this that > I am missing? Do we have a log files for such runs? I think this problem has been raised on a number of occasions, probably for more than a year. The

Re: Memory still not being released

2014-08-29 Thread Michael Drake
On 29/08/14 16:53, m...@johnwoodhouse.plus.com wrote: > the problem seems to persist You say "persist" and "still"; is there some context for this that I am missing? Do we have a log files for such runs? If there isn't one for this already, please open a bug report[1] with the relevant detail

Re: Memory exhausted whilst loading URL file

2014-06-05 Thread Fred Bambrough
In message Fred Bambrough wrote: > Memory exhausted whilst loading URL file > > Anyone else getting this with versions some time after 1941 on trying to > run Netsurf? Resolved. Seems something in Choices:WWW.Netsurf.URL was causing upset. Deleted the file and all seems well.

Re: Memory

2007-07-22 Thread Dave Symes
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Symes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Snip] > > CJE Micros will have some. I've recently bought an additional 64Mb from > > them to put in Fay's SARPC because she was suffering the same problem > > yo

Re: Memory

2007-07-22 Thread Phil
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Symes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > So, I guess in the short term, I need to find some memory for my > > RiscPC. Any pointers would be welcome. > > Thanks > > Phil > CJE Micros will have

Re: Memory

2007-07-21 Thread Dave Symes
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I guess in the short term, I need to find some memory for my RiscPC. > Any pointers would be welcome. > Thanks > Phil CJE Micros will have some. I've recently bought an additional 64Mb from them to put in Fay's SARPC beca

Re: Memory

2007-07-20 Thread Phil
in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David J. Ruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20 Jul 2007 Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For give me for raising this again if its already been raised, but is > > there an optimum setting to stop Netsurf running out of memory. I > > only have 40MB or so but how

Re: Memory

2007-07-20 Thread David J. Ruck
On 20 Jul 2007 Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For give me for raising this again if its already been raised, but is > there an optimum setting to stop Netsurf running out of memory. I only > have 40MB or so but how do you make Netsurf release memory it has used. > If it can be.. 40MB is woefull

Re: Memory

2007-07-20 Thread Richard Porter
On 20 Jul 2007 Phil wrote: > For give me for raising this again if its already been raised, but is > there an optimum setting to stop Netsurf running out of memory. I only > have 40MB or so but how do you make Netsurf release memory it has used. > If it can be.. In my experience NetSurf is quite