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To: PMS Witch who wrote (6470)	10/31/1999 11:27:00 AM
From: Feathered Propeller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110634

PW: Thank you for your explanation... I think the relevant words for me were... Windows has taken control of all your 128meg EXCEPT for 12meg, which gets reported as unused....It may seem a bit round-about of Windows to grab so much memory only to release it later, but it's probably more efficient... When I look at my System Monitor's Memory Manager... in bar chart form...with everything closed except desktop and the Monitor... I notice that the maximum memory allocated to the bar is “24.4M”...approximately 20% of my system's 128Megs. This seems roughly consistent with the Symantec reference in Mr. Mark's post: The Windows memory manager does not like free memory. Consequently, it will grow the VCACHE such that you will never have more than around 30 MB of unused RAM on your system at any time. Message 11689779 Which leaves me with the recommendation from the Symantec bulletin: You can limit the size of the cache and improve performance by editing your SYSTEM.INI file. Follow these steps to limit your cache file size:... ...although that does not make intuitive sense to me, I guess I will try it... JCC Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. -Chinese proverb