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whiskytechfred

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Increase RAM/resources available to Multi Commander
« on: Yesterday at 22:19:31 »
Hello,
I really enjoy using MC because of all it's configurations and amazing UI.  However, it often "pauses" or "redraws" the UI.  I won't say hang as I don't get any warnings or hung interface, it's just that either the interface doesn't register mouse commands (pauses) or the UI redraws several times in a row.
I have a fairly high end machine, Ryzen 9 9950x3d with 192Gb RAM, plugged on ethernet at 10gbps and paired with ab AMD RX7900XT so I was wondering if there's a parameter that I can set to allocate more RAM or a higher priority to MC (and if doing that would help with these issues).  On the docs/troubleshooting-hang page from the MC website it's written that
Cache settings: Optimize for your system
Memory limits: Configure for available RAM
but I can't find these settings in the configuration pages.
I used to work with FreeCommander and I don't recall having such issues in that app.
Thanks in advance for any hints you may be able to provide,
Fred

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Re: Increase RAM/resources available to Multi Commander
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 22:38:13 »
It a bit unspecific. so hard to say why you see that. Most work that require CPU are run in background threads.  not sure what pauses you mean, I have not notice anything like that. There should not be anything that cause pause.. Often when things like that happen it is because MC wait for some call from Windows. or external 3rdparty software like security software or other software that hook themself into other processes. that hijack calls from MC to windows.

No. There would be no point in MC to allocate more memory then it needs. MC it will cache and reuse memory it already have got.


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Re: Increase RAM/resources available to Multi Commander
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 23:04:54 »
Ok thanks, I'll investigate if there are other offending processes.
Just for clarity, what parameters are referenced on the docs/troubleshooting-hang page then?