I have (vague) memories of 95 and 98 suffering from design limitations where some 'allocation pools' of memory were limited, and applications that spawned lots of subtasks would consume the pool - with the OS waiting for a period of little use before it started a task to restore used, and released allocations back to the assignable pool - with the added problem that it would need some pool space to run the tidy-up routine.
That gave the problems of low memory, but didn't indicate any activity as using the memory because the applications had released the allocations I don't remember if the taskmonitor on 98 allows you to look at the delta memory and paging but that is where you may find lots of activity with the OS swapping allocations, trying to service multiple requests from applications demanding more real memory. JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Koziol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:49 AM Subject: Re: win98 consuming lots of swap space > Hi, > > I'm "all ears" on this one. Developed a similar problem on my Win98 > PC recently. It has a bit more RAM, but it's slowing down a lot. > > Downloaded Taskinfo from http://www.iarsn.com, as suggested here. > It's popping up with low virtual memory all the time. I assume it > means swap file. Strange, since I have 3/4 of a gig of memory, it > should not even use swap file. Something fishy is going on. > > AVG does not show anything, and neither do any of the adware apps. > > Regards, > > Rich > > > On 9 Jan 2006 at 8:39, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > > > Was cleaning up my father's computer and noticed something quite odd, the > > machine has 256mb of ram, however it's consuming up to 90mb of the swap file. > > This tends to slow things down a fair bit. Usual slow downs are when surfing > > the net with IE. Machine has Trend's PC-Cillin Internet Security 2006 > > installed and up to date, and the machine is up to date with windows updates. > > I've done a repair on IE also, with no joy. > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
