Question for cooks? How much free memory have been been able to get?

It is proving very difficult to significantly increase the amount of available free program memory on my GW825.

Normally, you would assume that it is all of the OEM software that is dragging it down, but that does not appear to be the case here.  While cooking, I excluded the OEMMisc folder, which contains pretty much everything but the base drivers, and I was only able to get the free program memory up to around 90 MB after a soft reset.  That's crazy.

The total memory used up by the active processes do not add up to nearly the amount that is being used.  The entire OEMDrivers and OEMDriversHigh contents only add up to around 24 MB. 

Where the heck is all of the program memory going?

As another test, I excluded OEMBT and OEMMisc as well as turned off Titanium and my program memory only increased to 92.85 MB.  =(

*note that this includes VoiceCommand which uses up around 1.3 MB.

That's the thing, the processes according to FDCSoft Task Manager only add up to around 34 MB.  What's using up the other 66 MB?  My entire ROM is only 72 MB, yet 110 MB of Program memory are being used up.

I wonder if a chunk is being allocated to virtual memory or video RAM?

I guess the Toshiba TG01 has about the same amount of free program memory.  It also lists 256 MB RAM and ends up with around 80 MB. 

My HTC Touch Pro had 288 MB of RAM (210 MB accessible vs 202 on my GW825), but with my custom ROM had over 150 MB of free program memory.