Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!rex!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au!glmwc From: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: AMIGA Message-ID: <1991Jan14.092706.10970@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Date: 14 Jan 91 09:27:06 GMT References: <7502@sugar.hackercorp.com> <37977@cup.portal.com> <7512@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland Lines: 23 In article <7512@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <37977@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >> Another point Mike overlooked was the requirement for STACK under AmigaOS. >> Under UNIX, it's never a problem, it grows as needed "automagically." On all >> my Amigas, I have a default stack size of 70000 just to avoid any possibility >> of a guru given some unforeseen program or memory requirements; that stack >> setting is totally wasteful for 99.9% of what I do, but if I don't do it I'm >> guaranteed a guru in no time; even though it takes only about 15 or so seconds >> to reboot, I don't relish the thought of losing something that might be going >> on in another (background) process. > >Yeh, but just think. We could be using Multifinder or Windows and have to >allocate 2 Meg to "Microsoft Word" even when we're only editing a 10K file. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. Peter, 2 Meg for a 10k doc is taking it a bit too far.........as for multifinder, allocating 1meg to each application regardless of size is nausiating. Matt Crowd.