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To: PMS Witch who wrote (9068)	10/13/1999 12:19:00 AM
From: Crispin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Just an Idea... How about forcing your swap file to be very small.This would force all programs to be in physical memory. Then see if you can use all your programs? You can control the size of the swap file somehow through control panel. There may be some problem with this I haven't thought about - I don't know enough about windows VM. Crispin

To: PMS Witch who wrote (9068)	10/13/1999 12:29:00 AM
From: Mike Delaney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

I'LL use the System Tools / Resource meter to monitor my system resources. Related to the subject.. Besides clearing my cache.. deleting contents in my windows temp file.. clearing bookmark 'history'...and keeping any unecessary icons loaded in that little box on bottom right-hand corner.. caan I free up any other unecessary items to gain more resource power? I'll run 5 browsers..1 containg java chat and 1 w/ level II.. and that eats up most of my resources at 128 ram. I can run a few other browsers but its pushing it... both java programs are heavy resource users. This is using win98 on a PIII 500. My souped up 100mhz..now 233 mhz running win95 can just about keep up.. Just goes to show how much useless extras win98 contains..which slow things down.

To: PMS Witch who wrote (9068)	10/13/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: halfscot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

You can go to scselp.com and download a free utility, WinRam Turbo Lite, that monitors your memory load, shows you available memory, and, best of all, allows you to free up memory by simply hitting the optimize button. It's a great utility and works better than any other utility I've yet tried to free up memory. You might want to give it a try. halfscot

To: PMS Witch who wrote (9068)	10/13/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Perhaps you could try System Tools / Monitor. This defaults to Kernel usage, but you could add unused physical memory to the values monitored by clicking Edit / Add Item / Memory Manager / Unused Physical Memory. I just tried running System Monitor and here are the results are got. Allocated Memory = 110 megabytes Unused Physical Memory = 48 megabytes Total of Allocated Memory + Unused Physical Memory = 158 megabytes. Amount of physical memory installed in computer = 128 megabytes. I have always gotten inconsistent results like this when using System Monitor. The amount of memory displayed by System Monitor doesn't correlate with the amount of physical memory installed in my computer. Hence I gave up using System Monitor and I still see no reason to trust it.