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To: Moving Sphere who wrote (11353)	9/26/2000 12:46:57 AM
From: stullbj	Respond to of 14778

MS, I'm not familiar with Taskinfo2000. So I don't know what you are looking at. The real test is to see if the computer still hangs. Try loading the broker software first. Then load another program one by one until the computer hangs. Once the computer hangs close out the last program opened. If the computer still hangs then the broker software has some kind of problem with the last program loaded. How much memory do you have now? The minimum I would run in your case would be 128MB RAM. The sweet spot is 256MB though. I doubt increasing memory would help the computer hanging, although I could be wrong. If you have less then 64MB then it might seem like it is hanging, when actually the computer starts using the hard drive's swapfile for memory. If your hard drive starts "crunching" while switching windows then increasing RAM would help big time. The only other thing I can figure is that you've used up all your RAM and the swapfile is set too small so that you really do run out of available memory. Hope that helps, -Brian-

To: Moving Sphere who wrote (11353)	9/26/2000 1:34:47 AM
From: wily	Respond to of 14778

MS, "Total KB" of 18,816 18,000KB is equivalent to 18MB. Unless you get below a few MB you don't have a memory problem. The CPU usuage was still about 30% top Although I agree that it is not looking like a cpu usage problem, I don't like to eliminate possibilities without being sure. You do that, and then you forget about them, and then run in circles for a while till you remember what you discarded. Best way to throw away that possibility is to see cpu usage less than 100% at the time that the problem occurs. wily