HardPressed memory usage

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

I booted my //gs several times with and without various items, and then
checked the "total free RAM" stat in the CDA control panel's RAM disk
section.

With neither HP nor Kangaroo installed, I had 3680K free (4MB, 32K RAM disk).

With HP installed (basic setup, 256K file cache) I had 3499K free.  That's
a total of 181K for HardPressed, file cache and all.

With Kangaroo installed (Kangaroo INIT + Hierarchic), I had 3454K free.
That's 226K.

With both HP and Kangaroo installed, I had 3272K free, a total of 408K.  181K
plus 226K is 407K (just about dead on).

I don't think 181K is excessive.  You can free up some memory by inactiving
some of the modules, but the only ones that are active by default are CRC-16
(which occupies almost no space at all), RLE (used for executables), LZW
(used for lots of things), and LZSS (not used by the Standard profile, but
very very useful when used to compress specific things).  If a file is
compressed with an inactive module, you won't be able to access the contents,
but you can always reactivate it from the Finder.  (See the manual page 69
for info about inactive modules, and page 75 for a description of the modules
themselves, including memory usage.)

(NOTE: I'm not trying to pick on Kangaroo here... it's just a convenient
example, and the person running low on memory had it installed.)

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]