JeffTisza
February 15th, 2000, 08:43 AM
Hello.
I'm running a P3-500 w/128MB RAM, Win98SE, and just plain suffer from poor system performance. TSRs include: Scheduler, PCanywhere Network Host, Norton Crashguard, Firewall, WinFAX, and a couple of other minor, minor routines. The SETI screen saver is also used, but it has been eliminated as a contributing factor. The system has two NICs: One for the DSL line, another for the local LAN. Both run TCP/IP with DHCP disabled. The machine has 3 IDE disk drives and a SCSI card for 4 (mostly inactive) SCSI devices. Video is run by an ATI Xpert98 card driving the screen at 1024x768x16. Norton System Doctor reports my GDI Resources generally start at 35% used and climb up to roughly 70+%. NSD also reports my User Resources tend to start out 55% used and often climb up over 90%. Right now, after a reboot, Windows System Properties Performance Tab reports System Resources are 42% Free (58% consumed). Exiting the TSRs generally frees up System Resources perhaps as much as 15%, but only marginally reduces User and GDI Resources. (Tech support for one of my applications says not to expect reliable application operation unless System Resources are 75% free or higher. I find this a bit difficult to accept.)
I realize this might qualify as a "fully-loaded" system, but performance and reliability just aren't there. If I didn't have the Norton Utilities, I'd be clue-less and very frustrated. As it is now, I'm just frustrated. Certaintly there is a bottleneck somewhere. Any thoughts as to what it (they) might be and what I might do to resolve this?
In advance - thanks.
JT.
I'm running a P3-500 w/128MB RAM, Win98SE, and just plain suffer from poor system performance. TSRs include: Scheduler, PCanywhere Network Host, Norton Crashguard, Firewall, WinFAX, and a couple of other minor, minor routines. The SETI screen saver is also used, but it has been eliminated as a contributing factor. The system has two NICs: One for the DSL line, another for the local LAN. Both run TCP/IP with DHCP disabled. The machine has 3 IDE disk drives and a SCSI card for 4 (mostly inactive) SCSI devices. Video is run by an ATI Xpert98 card driving the screen at 1024x768x16. Norton System Doctor reports my GDI Resources generally start at 35% used and climb up to roughly 70+%. NSD also reports my User Resources tend to start out 55% used and often climb up over 90%. Right now, after a reboot, Windows System Properties Performance Tab reports System Resources are 42% Free (58% consumed). Exiting the TSRs generally frees up System Resources perhaps as much as 15%, but only marginally reduces User and GDI Resources. (Tech support for one of my applications says not to expect reliable application operation unless System Resources are 75% free or higher. I find this a bit difficult to accept.)
I realize this might qualify as a "fully-loaded" system, but performance and reliability just aren't there. If I didn't have the Norton Utilities, I'd be clue-less and very frustrated. As it is now, I'm just frustrated. Certaintly there is a bottleneck somewhere. Any thoughts as to what it (they) might be and what I might do to resolve this?
In advance - thanks.
JT.