Issue with RAM

[skvaish]

Initially I had 128MB RDRAM on my VC820 MB with Intel P3-850Mz. It has Win 98Se installed. For sometime, I used to have my memory resources going down from 48% at the boot time to to 15-20% after doing some work, So recently I purchased 256MB RDRAM and installed it.

Still I see only 55% RAM free at the boot time. How is it so. The RAM has increased from 128MB to 384MB now, still it has 55% resouces free at the boot time. Can somebody explain the rational behind it.

Thanks

[baabu]

:o :p :confused:

[suprsheep2]

are you seeing performance problems? If you have more ram windows takes use of it in order to make your system to run more efficiently. That's probably the reason.

[baabu]

:o :p :confused:

[skvaish]

No the performance has not improved much only thing is previously I used to get my system resouces going down to very low very often, now I have to see the result. But After adding memory I was expecting the system resources to be at least 75% free.

:(

[BigBlue66]

Hey,

Adding more RAM will not increase your system's resources.

Only way to increase your system's resources is to cut down on the number of programs running at any given time. You can use System Configuration Utility (Start/Run, type "msconfig" without quotes, go to Startup tab, uncheck everything except ScanReg, Systray and Task Monitor) to cut down on the number of programs that are loaded at startup.

While you are working along, you can hit Ctrl,Alt,Del ONCE, and see what programs are running in the background. Highlight those that you don't need and choose End Task.

Also, there are free and not free software programs out there that supposedly optimize your resources, with physical RAM being a portion of them. Windows has an issue known as memory leaking. That's where when you close a program, it doesn't release the memory back to the system. It sounds like that may be part of your problem.

Do a search on RAM optimizers or something similar. Or check ZDNet downloads.

Cheers,

BB 66

[Harshu]

Hi There,
Well Ur 1st problem. Yes windows resources have no link with the RAM. So increasing the RAM for that purpose is not sensible thing to do. Basically See that what r the programs start ith windows. See that r some utilities (with drivers) are not loading with windows. U should only have 2-3 programs at the startup. As Win98 donot have a good memory management so avoid many programs at startup. Second problem is also connected to this thing only. See no TSR (terminate And Stay Resident) programs r loading. Remove thin by using msconfig or regedit. Use programs like Cacheman to specify the amount of disk cache. Win default is 1/4 of the total physical mem. So set this according to ur needs. This must solve ur problem.