Windows before NT has severe resource problems and
Windows ME (JUST SAY NO) is the worst. Irrespective
of how much RAM you have in your < WinNT machine, you
have a fixed and pretty small amount of windows resource
memory. This was solved in NT and the management of
it has gotten better with each new release of operating
system. If you have ANY kind of program running in the
background (such as antivirus, setting clock via the
internet, etc.) and it has a memory leak in the windows
resources: you are hosed after this finally gets near
the top of the available memory for resources. It took
me months to find the culprit on my wife's Win98se computer
(she will not allow me to upgrade) and it took so long
because at first I did not know about the Windows resource
problem (Dave Bernstein of dxlab told me) and secondly
because it is her problem and mine only when I have to
hear about it. I ask to be allowed to upgrade and then
wash my hands. This conversation occurs once a week and
usually ends with my being told: "I thought you were
a computer wiz".
I do not wish to be held responsible for this number but
I believe the limitation is 64 MB which is just ridiculous.
I could do a quick google search but I will leave that
to the interested reader.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Eric Scace K3NA
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:38 AM
To: WriteLog
Subject: [WriteLog] addled machine issues
Hi --
We ran a Multi/2 station which included some computers of about 500 MHz
processing capacity, 256 MB RAM, and Win98SE. During the
contest, at several points we discovered that the recorded "CQ" message was
the only message that would be sent by ANY function key.
All the disk files with the recorded messages were fine.
At first blush, it seems like memory-resident messages were getting
confused by the operating system or WL or both.
Furthermore, over time the system responsiveness got worse and worse.
Eventually we saved the log and did a warm start (restart)
of the Win98 computer. Everything then worked normally for another 8 hours
or so.
No other applications were running on these machines other than
WL-initiated jobs (WL, bandmap, packet).
Are we just running into memory leak or other Win98 problems, or is
something else going on (e.g., inadequate RAM capacity)? Any
ideas out there?
-- Eric K3NA
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