Vice 128 hogging hard drive space?

[mikeebean]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, I couldn't really find a better one.

Since I began using geoProgrammer, I've found it easier to leave Vice up and running, pausing it when not in use. However, I've found that my hard drive begins to fill up and the GEOS mouse starts acting wonky. If I quit Vice for a few minutes and restart it, whole gigabytes of hard drive space open up. But the mouse is still unusable, requiring a restart. Is this typical behavior?

Michael

[bacon]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, I couldn't really find a better one.

Then you didn't look very hard. There is an Emulation section of the forum, with a VICE subsection.

Since I began using geoProgrammer, I've found it easier to leave Vice up and running, pausing it when not in use. However, I've found that my hard drive begins to fill up and the GEOS mouse starts acting wonky. If I quit Vice for a few minutes and restart it, whole gigabytes of hard drive space open up. But the mouse is still unusable, requiring a restart. Is this typical behavior?

Sorry, can't help you there, haven't experienced anything like it.


Does it only happpen when you run GEOS? What settings do you use in VICE? Do you have host OS filesystem access turned on? What OS do you run on your PC?

[mikeebean]

Thank you Blacklord for moving my post to the proper spot.

Then you didn't look very hard.

Does it only happpen when you run GEOS?

I noticed it while playing with BASIC 8 so, probably not. But it may not be Vice at all, it just seems a likely culprit because this only recently began to happen and nothing new has been added to my PC.

What settings do you use in VICE?

True drive emulation, drive 8 and 9 are 1581s, drive 10 is a 1571, warp mode almost exclusively except when typing, that's about it that I can think of...

Do you have host OS filesystem access turned on?

I'm not sure what that means...

What OS do you run on your PC?

Vista.

Again, it may not be caused by Vice at all. I've never had this happen until recently since I've begun leaving Vice up and running while I'm out to save time rebooting. Not a big deal, just thought maybe someone might know.

[Payton Byrd]

Honestly, it sounds like a memory leak in x128.exe that is causing your dynamic paging file to grow rapidly and then when you close the app then Windows correctly releases the memory which allows the paging file to shrink accordingly.


I would report this to the Vice Team.  They will know what to ask you to try to reproduce the problem where they can debug it.