Dear Sabahattin, Thanks very much for your explanation. I'll probably continue to check those numbers, I find them interesting, but will mainly concern myself with the flash and keysoft count. Kathy Original Message ------ From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Braillenote] what is o chord i chord i chord? Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:42:34 -0000
Hi kathy, The numbers you are talking about are the used and free amounts of the two major classes of memory in Windows CE devices - the object store and program memory. The object store is what PulseData have decided to call the "KeySoft System Disk" in normal operation and the "Storage memory" in the memory display, and is the fundamental rootpoint of all filesystems and storage devices in your BrailleNote (flash disk, ATA/CF cards, etc). The program memory is strictly reserved for programs, the stack, the heap and other non-filesystem-related data. The BrailleNote is not using virtual memory, so the entire memory representation is physical RAM modules that are inside your BrailleNote. The memory is divided, by PulseData, in a half-and-half configuration, which they explain is important to your upgrade process. This can be changed but not without use of the Windows CE control panel applet (which is inaccessible to you) or another program such as memdiv which I wrote for the purpose. If you make such a change, you should know that PulseData will not approve of it and will not cover you under warranty if any failure or damage results from it (currently my BrailleNote is operating with 4MB program memory and 12MB storage, but I will change this back before upgrading). For most purposes, you need not concern yourself with the information displayed, because it is not especially revealing for normal operation. As you say, it is more important and useful to monitor specific filesystems and drives using the directory list. Cheers, Sabahattin
