[UK-CONTEST] Lacking in memory

[Dave Sergeant]

On 21 May 2005 at 22:47, G3SJJ wrote:

> So today I installed a second memory DIMM (what an apt name.) Now I
> have 2 lots of 256MB. Checking with System/Properties, it confirms
> 512MB RAM. I am now finding that generally things have sharpened up a
> bit, but "out of memory" messages seem to be appearing more often
> rather than less.
> 
> Is there anything I need to do?  The machine is a home built 1.2GHz,
> Win 98SE.

I believe (thought not 100% sure) that Windows 98SE is limited to 
256Mb maximum, so that extra memory won't do anything at all.

I use 98SE here, but with none of your software (being a person who 
refuses to use any MS software at all apart from Windows...). It 
works well (with 256Mb) although I have noticed a tendency for later 
versions of software to be pretty memory intensive. There is a 
setting you can add to system.ini to force Windows to not use disk 
cache until all physical memory has been used:
add the line ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 to the [386Enh] section. 
With that I find my swap ram (win386.swp) is normally zero.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com