[UK-CONTEST] Lacking in memory

[Tom Wylie]

I think 98SE runs with 512 Mhz RAM I used to have 
750Mbs but it didnt recognise the last 256....

I think my brain needs a memory upgrade at times....

73 de tom
gm4fdm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Lacking in memory


> 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
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