Re: [icon-users] Memory Full
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:27:56 +0200
In message <528356b000jcgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jim Lesurf <jcgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've not seen any response or possible explanation of the puzzle I raised
> a while ago. So I thought I'd ask again in case it has been overlooked.
> I've therefore quoted the original email below.
> I'm puzzled by what TW may be doing that causes it to fail to load the
> file on one platform (Iyonix) but be fine on the other (RPCEmu).
That is not the main puzzle for this a common thing to happen.
Available memory differs due to different amounts of physical/emulated
RAM available, OS limitations (only 28MB of WimpSlot on OS <> 5.X),
choice of WimpSlot vs. dynamic area memory, plus additional factors
limiting memory usage (e.g., Aemulor).
What I find puzzling is that it seems to make a difference on which
platform you add the PNG.
So, you were saying:
Transfer File1 to Iyonix => fails to load
Remove PNG on emulator, transfer as File2 to Iyonix => loads OK
Add PNG on the Iyonix, save as File3 and reload => loads OK
File1 and File3 should be equivalent. Please send both to me so I can
check what the difference is.
Martin
> In article <527cbea682jcgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Lesurf
> <jcgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I've been experimenting with using RPCEmu (0.8.9) rather than an Iyonix
>> as the basis for writing documents using TechWriter, etc. To do this
>> I've been writing the documents using TW on RPCEmu and then occasionally
>> transferring the result to the Iyonix in a zip. Up until today this has
>> worked perfectly. But I just encountered an odd problem.
>> Having carried upzipped a document on my Iyonix when I try to load it
>> into TW it fails with a TW error window that says
>> Could not open <filename> because: memory full
>> The document file is 1168K. About 1880 words *plus* a large PNG (1920 x
>> 1080 pixels = 1146K)
>> The file loads into the same version of TW in the RPC emulator, running
>> on Linux (Xubuntu 11.10).
>> If I remove the PNG on the emulator side and save a file which only
>> differs by having the image removed, that *does* load OK into TW on the
>> Iyonix. Indeed, I can then drop the PNG back in place, save the result,
>> and it then is happily loaded again by TW.
>> So a version where I add the PNG in the emulator isn't openable for the
>> reason "memory full". But one where I add the same PNG on the Iyonix
>> will then load again OK into TW.
>> So why is this happening?
>> My Iyonix has 512MB of ram, and most of that is free. (The emulator has
>> 256MB, again most of it free.)
>> FWIW I'm running RO 4.02 on the emulator, and using an old version of TW
>> (8.42). That may be a factor, and it may be due to some weird bug in
>> RPCEmu. But I am curious to know the cause as it could deter from using
>> RPCEmu.
>> Slainte,
>> Jim
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