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Some may remember comments/warnings I've made here regarding frequent crashes of
NT4/SP3 after installing IE401/OE. Because IE401/OE integrates itself into the
OS itself, it is easier for IE to bring down the whole system and virtually all
of the crashes occurred while starting/running/exiting either IE or OE.
About 10 days ago I upgraded to IE401 SP1 (now available via download) and
upgraded memory from 32 meg to 128 meg. Since then, the extraneous crashes seem
to have disappeared (fingers crossed).
In the FWIW department, the 128 meg seems to be overkill but I wasn't sure where
the payoff would stop and it was too cheap to pass. I've been taking regular
looks at NT Task Manager to see how NT is using the additional memory. TM shows
Total Physical Memory at 130484 and I've never seen less than 70000+ available
even with a major list of running tasks including both SC and Ensign running in
separate 16 bit WOW partitions. Commit Charge, which includes virtual memory
(aka pagefile), shows limit of 261120 and peak of under 90000. Most of Kernel
Memory (17832) seems to get paged out (15000) even though there is 50000+
physical memory available. Based upon what I'm seeing, I would opine that 64 meg
is probably about ideal and that 96 meg would provide more than adequate
cushion.
Sure is a big change from the early 60's when a "big" mainframe was 16k and as
recently as early 80's when we ran a major division of Pepsi Cola on 12 meg. Of
course we didn't have Microsoft around to write such bloated software either.
Earl
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