Memory muncher

[BiKeBoY]

I have noticed that after my machine has booted I only have about 30-50meg left as available memory (hardware memory, not swap file). I have 160mg installed.

I disabled all startup items, so only had necessary components working and still I only have 70meg available.

I ran a tune up with Sisoft Sandra and it said that MS_Webcheckmonitor was taking up alot of memory. I cannot believe that it is that much. I cannot even find the above mentioned program.

Does anyone have any idea of what is going on?


BiKeBoY

400celly, 160mg ram (64x100, 32x100, 64X66), voodoo III 2000, creative live 128

[otheos]

It sounds normal to me for windows.

[BiKeBoY]

But what then do people do if they only have 64 meg?

I failed to mention that I keep getting out of memory messages, so something isnt right.

Thanks for the reply http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[drojman]

windows uses up as much memory as it can... the folks with 64 meg have a lot of harddrive action... LOL

not sure about your out of memory errors...

[otheos]

exactly
with 64MB RAM, you start swapping the minute you start windows.

[NDC]

I would say to run at least 128mb of ram to get a decent performance out of Win98. And you think Win98 is a memory hogger, you ought to see Win NT4 Workstation. I have 768MB of RAM and it takes 25% (192MB) of that memory as soon as I boot into Win NT and that's with optimized setup for system startup! LOL http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

As for your memory error, try setting the virtual memory to about 300MB for both MIN and MAX value after you check off the "Let me specify my own size" in Win98. The reason I told you to set both files the same size is to reduce the time that Win98 has to increase and decrease its page file size which will cause your system to slow down even more because it has to use the page file and adjust the size according to program usage.


But as the guys said above, you will get a lot of disk access which will make your computer a REAL BOGGER. RAM is much faster than swap file on a hard disk.


[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 09-06-2000).]