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Neo,
instead of rebooting, i suggest you try "rambooster", a freeware program
that will free up all avail. ram for you without having to restart.
you should be able to find it online with a simple search engine. if not,
let me know and i will send you the exe file.
regards,
kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Martinez" <DanM@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Windows 98(1) More than 512 MB's Memory
> Neo,
> I don't know what you mean by "I use a simple memory monitor on my desktop
to
> follow RAM usage. If it goes
> over 512 MB I reboot." Are you saying you have 512 MB's physical memory
and
> when your combined physical and swap file memory goes above 512 MB's you
> reboot? You shouldn't have to do this.
>
> I looked these web pages:
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q253/9/12.asp
>
http://support.crucial.com/scripts/crucial.exe/solution?11=001213-0007&130=0
00976726652&14=&2715=&15=&2716=&57=faq&58=&2900=&25=-1
>
> Also the page Peter Gialames posted:
> http://www.dewassoc.com/support/win98/win9x_512memory.htm
>
> I haven't decided if I want to install more than 512 MB's. I might take a
> chance and see if the SYSTEM.INI command fixes the problem. I set the
> MAXFILECACHE command about a year ago. If you have a lot of memory, over
128
> MB's on a Windows 9x O/S, and you don't set the MAXFILECACHE command, you
will
> actually experience a performance slowdown. Windows slows down because it
must
> search through your huge VCACHE to search for what it needs before
accessing
> your HDD. I currently have 192 MB's and this is in my SYSTEM.INI.
> [vcache]
> maxfilecache=21000
>
> 256 MB DDR Registered DIMM's are so cheap now, $45 (and free shipping), it
would
> only cost me $90 to find out if my Windows 98 works with 1 GB. It's
amazing how
> cheap they are. Did you ever enter the MAXFILECACHE setting in your
SYSTEM.INI
> file? Theoretically, because Windows 9x is a 32-bit O/S, it should be
able to
> handle 2^32 bytes or 4 GB's. Of course, there's always a difference
between
> theory and practice. With Windows 2K, I know a lot of people who have 768
MB's
> to 1 GB and they report no problems.
>
> Daniel.
>
>
> neo wrote:
>
> > Daniel
> >
> > I would suggest not adding more than 512 MB of memory. I tried to do
this
> > about a year ago. In Win98 there is a dedicated area of memory called
the
> > System Memory. It handles memory addressing, DOS programs, graphics,
etc.
> > When it did not work I spoke with one of the senior engineers at Micron
who
> > confirmed the problem. When Win98 was first programmed, no one had any
idea
> > of the amount of RAM people would be using.
> >
> > I use a simple memory monitor on my desktop to follow RAM usage. If it
goes
> > over 512 MB I reboot. Things that take a lot of memory are large file
> > operations. I have a problem when either doing large file transfers,
> > deletions, or certain system tests and explorations with MetaStock.
Win98
> > reclaims very little memory once used so the only option I have found
that
> > works is to monitor it and reboot when needed.
> >
> > Windows 98 allows one to set ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 so that all RAM
is
> > used before the swapfile. Unfortunately with Win2000 one is not able to
give
> > it this command so more memory is just a waste (see Microsoft knowledge
> > base). I hope this is fixed with XP.
> >
> > neo
> >
> > ~ -----Original Message-----
> > ~ From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ~ [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel Martinez
> > ~ Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 8:48 AM
> > ~ To: Equis Metastock ListServ Post
> > ~ Subject: Windows 98(1) More than 512 MB's Memory
> > ~
> > ~
> > ~ Hello,
> > ~ I'm thinking about installing more than 512 MB's of memory on my
> > ~ motherboard. I want to install 1 GB of memory on my motherboard. I
> > ~ will be initially using Windows 98(1). Is anyone here using more
than
> > ~ 512 MB's of memory on their Windows 98(1) machine? If you have
> > ~ already set your Disk Cache size, are you still having problems?
> > ~
> > ~ Daniel.
>
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