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To: wily who wrote (1477)	10/20/1998 6:19:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 7382

Virtual Memory on Win98 or Win95 Hint Hi Guys, When you ram is full, windows swaps to your hard disk. In doing so, it has to resize the swap file (default) and do the transfer which can lock up your machine for a few seconds. This is often called windows thrashing. You can speed up this process by setting the parameters for virtual memory yourself. Before doing this, decide which drive/partition your virtual memory will be on, and defrag that drive/partition, so that your new swap file will be continuous. You will want to set up a swap file that is 2 to 2 1/2 times your ram, if possible. Moving to another D, E, etc drive/partition is a good idea, if you have them, as your C drive can fill up with temp files without you knowing it (C:\windows\temp). Go to MY COMPUTER, then CONTROL PANEL, then SYSTEM, then PERFORMANCE, then VIRTUAL MEMORY then specify your own drive and virtual memory settings. Use the same value for minimum and maximum to eliminate resizing and fragmenting of the new swap file. This will ensure that any swaps to hard disk occur without interruption do to Windows going away and doing its own thing. As always, it is a good idea to do this outside of market hours, in case you have a glitch of some kind. :-)) John

To: wily who wrote (1477)	10/20/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: LiveWire	Respond to of 7382

I've heard this, but it doesn't seem to apply. If I open "system monitor" a second time, and then close the second one, cpu and memory usage aren't affected noticably. Maybe that's not a valid test... You are right, it is not a valid test. Both the system monitor and the resource monitor use resources, and can be very expensive. The resource meter actually warns you when you bring it up the first time ever. When looking at the resource meter, there is no way to determine how much real memory is free. All the calculations are done using both real and virtual memory. Windows 95/98 allocate and reallocate virtual memory on the fly which can even make things slower. You must use the system monitor to see memory usage, as I'm sure you know. But are you also monitory the swap file? How long have you had ISDN? How much is it where you are-- I've had ISDN for about a month now. I live in Dallas, TX, and Southwestern Bell is my provider. It costs $52.85 plus taxes per month for the line, and $39.95 per month for 128KB dialup. We don't have cable modems or ASDL yet. Before I got the ISDN, I was using 28.8KB dialup. It seem weird, but my machine kept locking up. Nothing would work, except my RT3 windows would continue to update, especially when DELL was up. My RT3 uses more memory than yours because I have more window up. I have 4 L2, 5 graphs, 5 stock minders, and the OES window. Steven