always low in memory

[silkman]

i got a 10Gig maxtor hard drive and i have 64mb edo ram. and right now i'm always low in memory when ever i try to use notepad and netscape composer, sometime is slow and sometime i can't even type a word in notepad so anyone have any suggestion to help me out on this? thanks alot

[Mike H.]

Most people don't know that windows has disk cache sort of like Smartdrive, that will take up all available ram, unless it is manual set to one size like the swapfile. Try adding this in your system.ini file.

[vcache]
MinFileCache=16384
MaxFileCache=16384
(optionally)ChunkSize=512

If you change the size, remember that it must be a divisible of 1024, 16 Mb is 16*1024=16384

Use "System monitor" to verify.

Here's a picture of mine

http://home.att.net/~m.holdcraft/System_moniter.jpg

Mike H.

Watercooled AMD K6-2 450 @ 500 (100*5) Epox EP-MVP3G Rev. 1.0 Bios 3-01-99 128 Meg PC100 Matrox Marvel G-200 TV 16MB 4.51 Drivers SB Live! Retail.



[This message has been edited by Mike H. (edited 07-15-99).]

[philipg]

Mike H.

I'm gona try that disk cache idea never thought of in that way before.

I have a question for you about your setup though.

You have 128MB of RAM, 320MB Swap file with 0% usage.
Here's my question: Why is your swap file so large if your not useing any of it?

Just a simple observation to think about. Wouldn't a swap file size around 128MB be more practical.

[CMonster]

Memory is not my best subject, in fact I'm lucky I can remember my own way home, but I just had a couple of tidbits:

Do you have anything loading in your autoexec.bat or config.sys files that might be taking up or modifying system resources?

Did you run "mem" at a DOS prompt to check how all your memory is allocated? You might try mem /c/p, I think, to get a better picture.

Last and least - done a virus scan lately?