Panama Jack
06-23-1999, 05:36 PM
I have an
Asus P5A motherboard
AMD K6/2 450 CPU
128mb 8ns PC100 SDram (one strip)
TNT Video
Areal Vortex 2 Sound card
Shark Multimedia 56k ISA modem
All the latest drivers and bios updates running Windows 98.
Here is my problem...
Windows 98 is allocating twice the memeory actually being used by the system. Right now the system says I am using 50% (61mb) of my system memory and Windows has allocated 122mb of my system memory. My swap file usage is at 20mb. If I load anything that takes actual memory usage over 64mb the allocated memory causes massive movement to the swap file.
Here is an example using a game called Total Annihilation. On another 64meg 200mhz system I have running Windows 98 the swap file is only 48meg in size when running Total Annihilation. But on the one I mentioned above when I run the same program it creates a 244mb swap file and Windows allocates over 250mb of ram!!!! This is not cool and I need to find what is causing this because my system is SLOWER because of massive disk swaps than the 64meg 200mhz system when I run any real programs.
The other problem I am having relates to memory. I have 128mb 8ns PC100 SDRam and two 64mb 8ns PC100 SDRam strips. If I put in any combination of the above memory on the motherboard to where the total memory is over 128mb of ram my system performance drops over 30% in just about any benchmarking utility. It this because I am mixing 128mb and 64mb ram? Should I have only the same size memory from the same manufacturer in all three slots?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
[This message has been edited by Panama Jack (edited 06-23-99).]
Asus P5A motherboard
AMD K6/2 450 CPU
128mb 8ns PC100 SDram (one strip)
TNT Video
Areal Vortex 2 Sound card
Shark Multimedia 56k ISA modem
All the latest drivers and bios updates running Windows 98.
Here is my problem...
Windows 98 is allocating twice the memeory actually being used by the system. Right now the system says I am using 50% (61mb) of my system memory and Windows has allocated 122mb of my system memory. My swap file usage is at 20mb. If I load anything that takes actual memory usage over 64mb the allocated memory causes massive movement to the swap file.
Here is an example using a game called Total Annihilation. On another 64meg 200mhz system I have running Windows 98 the swap file is only 48meg in size when running Total Annihilation. But on the one I mentioned above when I run the same program it creates a 244mb swap file and Windows allocates over 250mb of ram!!!! This is not cool and I need to find what is causing this because my system is SLOWER because of massive disk swaps than the 64meg 200mhz system when I run any real programs.
The other problem I am having relates to memory. I have 128mb 8ns PC100 SDRam and two 64mb 8ns PC100 SDRam strips. If I put in any combination of the above memory on the motherboard to where the total memory is over 128mb of ram my system performance drops over 30% in just about any benchmarking utility. It this because I am mixing 128mb and 64mb ram? Should I have only the same size memory from the same manufacturer in all three slots?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
[This message has been edited by Panama Jack (edited 06-23-99).]