Default memory cache usage?
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Default memory cache usage?
Hi, I saw on the Unofficial Phoenix FAQ that you can specify the amount of memory cache for Phoenix to use in the user.js file. ( http://texturizer.net/phoenix/tips.html )
I was wondering how much Phoenix uses by default?
Thanks.
I was wondering how much Phoenix uses by default?
Thanks.
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kiop wrote:Hi, I saw on the Unofficial Phoenix FAQ that you can specify the amount of memory cache for Phoenix to use in the user.js file. ( http://texturizer.net/phoenix/tips.html )
I was wondering how much Phoenix uses by default?
Thanks.
4096KB. Or 4MB if you prefer.
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Re: Default memory cache usage?
djst wrote:4096KB
What's that? 4096 Kelvin Bytes?
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Re: Default memory cache usage?
Stefan wrote:What's that? 4096 Kelvin Bytes?
It's whatever Phoenix uses. Open up chrome://communicator/content/pref/pref.xul (if it still works), go to Advanced/Cache and you will see KB.
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Duey wrote:Stefan wrote:What's that? 4096 Kelvin Bytes?
It's whatever Phoenix uses. Open up chrome://communicator/content/pref/pref.xul (if it still works), go to Advanced/Cache and you will see KB.
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Stefan's humor seems to differ from yours
Anyway: kB = 1000 bytes, KB = 1024 bytes.
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laszlo wrote:Stefan's humor seems to differ from yours
Oh, heh, sorry, subtle things usually go way over my head.
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laszlo wrote:Anyway: kB = 1000 bytes, KB = 1024 bytes.
Well, k = 1000, but there is actually no spec that sais K = 1024.
And that is sais KB in Mozilla, well the american programer that wrote it probably never used learned about SI units in school
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Benman wrote:If I remember right, it had something to do with hex. Or was it binary?
2^10 = 1024 which is close enough to kilo (1000) so that people started using the shorter 1k notation after a while.
Obviously having k mean 1000 as well as 1024 is far from optimal (HDs and networking eg uses 1000, while memory uses 1024) as there is a high risk of confusion.
Sadly the standards organizations havn't managed to come up with (or rather agreed upon) a good alternative replacment yet (though there are a number of suggestions).
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Stefan wrote:djst wrote:4096KB
What's that? 4096 Kelvin Bytes?
k stands for kilo, which is 1000. One kilogram is 1000 grams. One kilometer is 1000 metres. Somehow, the americans decided to use K for kilobytes. Maybe because 1024 != 1000, or maybe because they didn't like the appearance of kB? I really don't know. K is really short for Kelvin, not kilo, and in fact, the Swedish version of Windows is using kB instead of KB.
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Stefan wrote:Benman wrote:If I remember right, it had something to do with hex. Or was it binary?
2^8 = 1024 which is close enough to kilo (1000) so that people started using the shorter 1k notation after a while.
Obviously having k mean 1000 as well as 1024 is far from optimal (HDs and networking eg uses 1000, while memory uses 1024) as there is a high risk of confusion.
Sadly the standards organizations havn't managed to come up with a good alternative replacment yet (though there are a number of suggestions).
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Kibibyte.html
Yes, I think it sounds stupid too. Also it means that hard drive manufacturers can continue labelling drives as "80 Gb" when your OS will report them as less.
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More appropriate link: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Didn't notice that link on the Mathworld site.
Didn't notice that link on the Mathworld site.