RAM Defrag on T3?

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mmwiens

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Here's an interesting link:

http://ramdefrag.sourceforge.net/

Downloaded this latest version 0.007 (!) and sat there staring at it, like Pee Wee Herman when he rescues the animals from a burning pet store and keeps "eyeing" the snakes until the very end . . . . .

Anyway, nothing smoked or blew up and I got a quick message saying "congrats, you're fully defragged." Reason for the quickness may have been it didn't NEED any.

I haven't loaded and erased that much stuff since the last hard reset, which I imagine would defrag your unit for sure . . . does anyone have any thoughts on this? I was under the impression that Palm OS 3 and 4 could use defragging, but OS5 did not - in any case, I'm attaching it.
 
Paul,

This has to be a joke. There's no way I know of for RAM to get fragmented, much less need to get defragmented. RAM is completely dynamic and gets used based on things like heap space. No matter what this program claims to do, RAM allocation would be changed the next time you did anything on your Palm. Maybe there's someone who's birther than me who can explain why this would do any good but I'm still going with a joke until someone can convince me otherwise. :)
 
Fine. I see how it is.

Have no fears . . . . I've ordered the DUNCE hat.

Now I'm just going to sit here quietly and apply WAYYYYYY too much Pledge to the screen . . . . . . Oooh, the men with the straitjacket are here . . .

"But it can't be fake . . . it's from SOURCE FORGE . . . .

Why can't I take my stuffed animals????!!!
 
Good morning gentleman...

I have just installed this little gem. Cant possibly seee what it is doing! It sure doesnt dfrag the heap, which would be v. useful on my poor old, heap-compromised T|T. I will try some benchmarks but I seriously doubt if this is doing anything at all.....b$%%er, alreday 'defragged' before benchmark...now I need that other excellent freeware utility, 'ReFragger' so as I can see it 'DeFragger' works....wot??

Paul, those little guys in white coats didnt happen to mention if North London was their next stop...I better take these pencils out of my nose and stop shouting 'wibble'....
 
hello sos

until now i thought i was the only one on earth still using a palm TT coupled with a 256mo sd card and mac os X.... but there is another one and still alive ! goooood this is giving me some strength !

apart this point, i do not see what could do the defrag thing we're talking about on this thread....except it's nice to do it !


maybe cracking the prg would give us the key ?
or maybe the author will come up and explain...



all the best in your quest
dom
 
Hey Dom...

in fact just installed a 1Gb SD (panasonic 32x) which works very well despite truly atrocious VFSmark....

You dont need to crack the prog, the source is available at sourceforge.

Anyway, I cant detect any difference at all....

steve
 
Early Palms (OSs 1&2) would let their RAM get fragged. OS 3, I believe, brought automatic de-fragmenting. I remember an app called "Recycle" from way back that would recover several K of RAM just from defragmenting.
 
Yes! Just dug it up in fact from "archive hunting;" I've put all the old stuff in the archive folder instead of having to hunt for it on CDs. As I recall I tried it on the 505, but don't know if it works on the T3. That's what I thought this new one was a variation of since the other one is a small app too.

I have a feeling, however, that a simple hard reset and reload would do the same thing, and when I ran this "new one," I sure got a real quick message saying "it's all great."

Jim may be right - someone's pulling my or "our" leg.

It stands to sense that if things are in clumps, there are "useable heaps" or useable areas too small for something to fit - whereas if it's made "linear" you would "find space" because of a larger open cluster. I'm just wondering how a 4k app does that . . .

Probably a joke. I just loaded recycle for laughs, and got "error message, please report this # to developer." So much for the old one!
 
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