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No, no networking. So how is a tro*an scan run w/o an AV program? I'll try that. BTW I always have norton set to the max heuristics. I went ahead and just set my swap file for custom size like I normally have, will see if that does anything but unfortunately I think it probably will not. I have another dupe video card here, I may put it in if I don't get any other suggestions on this. Thanks Barry, -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Aronson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 07:52 10/4/01 -0500, you wrote: >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 > >God Bless Us All >Clint Hamilton, Owner >http://OrpheusComputing.com Clint! Sounds like you have put a great deal of confidence in Windows managing your swap file. You may be correct about your video card being bad but I did not read if this PC is connected to a peer-to-peer network or not. You could also have a "hitch hiker" that you picked up through your DSL. Run a tr*jan scan, not just Norton's AV and set it for different modes. Like, "a single file", a directory, a complete drive, and lastly a "heuristic" mode for suspicious and brand new codes not represented in your machine before But all in all you DO have one sh*t load of components running on one machine and the first thing I would do is not let Windows manage my swap file, but the 2.5 X thing is outdated now and the prevailing theory is NOW to either let a third party app like Cacheman manage it, or just set it for the exact amount of your system RAM, which is how I have mine set and also have Cacheman customize my assorted cache files etc. HTH, Barry ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= 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 =====================================================
