Didn't 95 and 98 hold on to DLL's in memory and there was a registry entry one could turn on to release them immediately.
Mark Dodge MD Computers 360-772-2433 -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Button Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: win98 consuming lots of swap space 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 -- ---------------------------------------- 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.
