AMINET SELECT - MagicFlush



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Author: alecosnet@inwind.it (Alessandro Marinuzzi)


http://digilander.iol.it/AlexMT/





Editors Note


Are you still using your Amiga? Have you limited Menory? ... Like all Amiga users, I am burdened by the constraints of 2 meg of chip ram ...Even although I have installed 32 Meg of Fast ram, I find that through constant use of various programs, The memory slowly get eaten up ... Eventually You might even experience a Crash because of insuffient CHIPRAM.


Perhaps Alessandro Marinuzzi has the Answer with his program MAGICFLUSH





INTRODUCTION:

MagicFlush

Flush memory every 2 seconds


I wrote this little script in order to gain the memory used by the tasks but not deallocated so my Amiga every time after using an application was using a small amount of memory instead of the total available. I found most tools for this purpose but I was not satisfied! For this reason I decided to write this useful and simple script... MagicFlush is born!!! :) Now I have decided to give MagicFlush to the Amiga community. I sincerely hope you will find my MagicFlush very useful :-)



REQUIREMENTS:


· Any Amiga
· KeyPressed in C: (Included)


FEATURES:


· very safe
· modifiable using a simple text editor
· very very simple
· uses the commands Avail and Wait
· may be killed keeping pressed the key F6 for 4 seconds


INSTALLATION:


Simply you have to:

· copy KeyPressed to C:
· copy MagicFlush to Sys:WBStartup
· reboot your Amiga


AUTHOR:


Alessandro Marinuzzi
Address: Via Torre Pilo n.14/c
City: Palermo
ZipCode: 90151
Country: Italy

E-Mail: alecosnet@inwind.it


Editors Note


Well it sound good!, However many programs profess to save you memory, So how will MAGICFLUSH stand up to a small test.

Right Using my Amiga 1200 I rebooted MINUS MagicFlush and noted my total memory figures, ThenI opened PPaint and ImageStudio. Having these Two screens in the background I opened and started Miami to go onlne ...Then as a good test I opened Ibrowse and went to www.google.com.

OK so I am online with the Search engine on screen and PPaint/Image Studio running in the Background ...Time to compare my memory usage:-

ChipRam                                 FastRAM

1607544                               30677512  (Total after a reboot)
 443432                               25517912  (all programs running)

Now we close the Programs down and back to a plain Workbench Screen

ChipRam                                 FastRAM

1593536                               28696984 (Total with programs closed)

Mm ..As you can see (14008) CHIPRAM and (1980528) FastRam NOT Recovered. So How will the same procedure be USING MagicFlush?

MagicFlush Installed


ChipRam                                 FastRAM

1607360                              30677608  (Total after a reboot)
 443400                               25542072  (all programs running)

Now we close the Programs down and back to a plain Workbench Screen

ChipRam                                 FastRAM

1606024                              29334136 (Total with programs closed)


This time the memory NOT recovered was (1336) CHIPRAM and (1343472) FASTRAM ...Quite a difference!

Infact having MagicFlush installed I recovered 2672 CHIPRAM and 637056 FASTRAM more than I would had it not been installed.



Conclusions


MagicFlush really does work, and can return a lot od memory normally eaten up during the Usage of various Programs on your Amiga.

MagicFlush is now firmly installed in my Workbench Startup Drawer, A great little program that EVERY Amiga user should have installed.



Download MagicFlush Now

ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/wb/MagicFlush.lha


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