Subj : file areas // Re: Internal codes in Baja
To : All
From : Jas Hud
Date : Wed Jul 08 2009 07:55 pm
Tegularius wrote:
> Re: Re: Internal codes in Baja
> By: Jas Hud to All on Sat Jul 04 2009 17:40:52
> Also by the way, I was considering the possibility of alternate file paths,
> if only because the docs say somewhere that each file area defined takes
> up RAM. Do you know how much RAM, or at what point this might begin to
> be a problem? Vertrauen must have well over a hundred. I recall from
> three years ago (before my disk crash) I was offering the contents of
> at least a dozen CDs, each as a library, and most of them had at least
> thirty areas. I don't recall that performance suffered. The trouble with
> alternate paths is that adding more than about eighteen in scfg is a real
> pain because the window keeps bouncing back to the eighteenth. Perhaps this
> is a bug easily fixed?
>
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i dont think you really need to use exteral file paths in this day and age.
i probably have more files on the bbs than 90% of the people out there
and i've never had a problem regarding memory or performance.
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