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mormegil
03-01-2003, 11:20 AM
I'm kind of curious. Why does Info tell me I only have 11M of memory, when this is suppose to be a 16MB machine?
hogs
03-01-2003, 11:25 AM
All the embedded multimedia stuff need to have 5 dedicated Mo...
This is the case on most machines, but with the NX it is the first time that the amount of locked memory is so high :(
NX70BOY
03-01-2003, 11:30 AM
Congrats on your 100th post hogs. (look at mine. :))
Badandy
03-01-2003, 11:47 AM
hogs was right. 4 to 5 megabytes is taken up by sony apps that are included.
Sieve
03-01-2003, 12:37 PM
And apps that are going to allow us to delete un-used apps are comming shortly (hopefully)...
n2ifp
03-01-2003, 01:24 PM
Not necessarily, the last I had heard Brayder has been having issues with it.
cbulock
03-01-2003, 01:30 PM
Actualy, that is incorrect. The Sony apps are stored in the 16MB of ROM which is a seperate area from the 16MB of RAM. There will be a utility to access the ROM and delete apps from it, but you will still only have 11MB of RAM accessable to use. The 4 to 5MB is used for system memory and its the temporay area that apps use when they are running, much like apps on a PC use RAM.
n2ifp
03-01-2003, 01:35 PM
Originally posted by cbulock
Actualy, that is incorrect. The Sony apps are stored in the 16MB of ROM which is a seperate area from the 16MB of RAM. There will be a utility to access the ROM and delete apps from it, but you will still only have 11MB of RAM accessable to use. The 4 to 5MB is used for system memory and its the temporay area that apps use when they are running, much like apps on a PC use RAM.

Right, you are correct:)! I just can't remember at the moment what terminology Sony had given to described it(:.
Unregistered
03-01-2003, 01:45 PM
heap
nike33
03-01-2003, 01:48 PM
heap of what?????
sorry.......
Badandy
03-01-2003, 01:57 PM
Thanks for explaining that!
cbulock
03-01-2003, 02:06 PM
Originally posted by nike33
heap of what?????
sorry.......

memory
Unregistered
03-01-2003, 03:33 PM
So is this an OS 5 specific thing? Having a "heap" of 5 MB, I mean.
aaronrkelly
03-01-2003, 04:21 PM
no its not an OS5 thing as this is not a problem with the Tungsten - its a Sony thing.....has to do with the "included" applications.
Submicron
03-01-2003, 04:25 PM
It appears to be an OS 5 issue, my previous Clies and Plams haven't had near the RAM overhead of my NX. I can't wait for the JackFlash upgrade. I'm almost out of memory!
n2ifp
03-01-2003, 04:31 PM
Whether is an OS5 thingie or not, PowerRun v1.2 can help free up memory by moving most apps to the memory stick.