Yep, thanks, checked all that. Nothing out of the norm. I just defrag'd before I changed the swap file size and I'll reboot and see what that does. -Clint
God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
