Clint,
have you run msconfig to see what actually loading at startup or
ctrl+alt+del to see what actually is running at the time? Sounds like some
app is sticking it to you. Also, a good rule of thumb (regardless of what
the they's of the world say) is to give a minimum swap size of 500mb or so
and let Windows manage above that. I've tried to set it to a fixed ammt and
regardless of how big that was, my machine eventually froze up requiring a
hard reboot.
Stephen Todd
----- Original Message -----
> Hi all. Something odd started happening 2 days ago. My
> available RAM is disappearing. Appears I have a memory leak
> somewhere. This is a just formatted HD (IBM ATA100 75GXP)
> with win98, all patches and updates. RAM is 256mb CAS2 PC133
> PNY Platinum on a Soyo SY-6BA+IV w/PIII 800e. Cards are;
> 3com internal PCI DSL modem, ESS Allegro 4 channel PCI sound
> card, ATI AIW 128 Pro 32mb AGP video card and a Promise
> ULTRA100 TX2 ATA 100 controller card. (Also 52x CDROM &
> Yamaha 16x10x40 LiteSpeed CDRW drive running Adaptec ECDC
> 4.03 and DCD 3.05).
>
> There is nothing more running in the BG or starting @ bootup
> other than what I have had for years. Norton AV, Zone Alarm
> Pro, Cordless Logitech mouse executable (which gives custom
> mouse features) a CPU cooling program & very tiny program
> that gives the normal windows system tray clock day, date and
> month features (Tclockex). The latter 3 consume a negligible
> amount of ram and resources and disabling them only gives
> about 2mb more of available ram and 2% more available
> resources. Tclockex is what gives the RAM amount available
> and RAM load via mouse hover.
>
> Swap file is still set to 'let windows manage', I have yet to
> set that to what it usually is (2.5x the ram amount), but in
> the past I have run it both ways and never had this problem.
> @ bootup, as usual the 'memory LOAD' shows as only 24% and
> AMOUNT at 180mb (180,xxx k). The 'RESOURCES available'
> always show what they always have shown, a LOW 84% for some
> reason. This has always been the case even on other hard
> drives/formats. I have no other programs installed on this
> HD than I have always had installed on any other HD, in fact,
> much less since I have not had the time to load them all.
>
> Previously after a few hours of typical use, the memory load
> would typically be always less than 50% & RAM available at
> about 120mb even with 5+ webpages open, OE open, sending and
> receiving email, and maybe 3 apps in use plus the TV tuner on
> the ATI AIW. The load would usually be about 35-40% and even
> more RAM available with only a few apps going.
>
> Recently, after a few hours of use, I had noticed the mouse
> cursor 'dragging' when I would move it, sort of with some
> 'sticky hesitation' you might say. I checked the memory load
> and mem available and was shocked. The RAM was sucked up to
> where at times ZERO mb was available! Right now as I type,
> it is at only 7k available! During these times the 'load'
> will show 65-70%. I now have to either restart the PC after
> only a short period of time, or load and use resman.exe to
> reclaim and recover more RAM, then close it down after the
> memory restoration.
>
> I have heard of memory leaks before, but the only thing I
> have heard of causing them is a video card going bad. Any
> thoughts on what could be causing this please?
> Thanks,
> -Clint
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