Losing memory

[Dima]

Once i had Pentium 100 with 16MB and IE4,
then IBM200+ with 32MB Win98 and IE5,
but now with AMD K6-2 266 and 128MB
my Win98 strongly losing memory when
running IE5 on-line. Just 10-15 windows and
it stops responding. Resource Meter
shows less than 10% of available memory.
Changed memory, changed board, mouse, drivers
... I have ATI AGP 8MB... but it seems good, I hope http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/wink.gif... The same problem on Pentium 350MHz, 128MB (133MHz) and ATI 16MB...
so... ? ah...
Dima - tsvetkoff@hotmail.com

[year2000]

It could be you are running out of hard drive space for your swap file (virtual memory). Using something like IE 5 uses alot of memory resources. Plus your video card memory has nothing to do with data. All that video ram is used to display images on a monitor at a certain number of colours and resolution size. Try not to have so many internet windows open. I find the same thing happens when I have several windows open using NETscape. I get low resources plus near crashes.

[Dima]

I have a 650MB disk free aspesially for
Win386.swp file. It doesn't help. Sometimes windows just closing and I have to restart my computer. And what does it means: your video card memory has nothing to do with data?

[cordon]

If you open a lot of windows from IE5 it will happily eat all your system resources and then lock the machine.
Try turning Java, javascript, activeX controls and any other scripting 'process this yourself' type plugins off. This should reduce the memory footprint of each window.

Change your File system settings, typical role of this computer to 'Network server'. This will free up a little more RAM and may speed access to the swap file. Defragment your hard disk with something other than microsoft defrag.
If you're still having problems with IE5, then try and get a newer version of it and reinstall.

Check the machine for virii, it may not help but you can never be too sure.

Video memory is only used to store video information, like textures and buffers for display.
It will not have an effect on your IE5 problem.

[Dima]

All I wanted to say that with IBM200 and 32MB EDO it wasn't happening...

[Starbuck]

Hi Dima; Another thing you can do is try increasing your vcache setting in C:\Windows\System.ini file.

READ THIS (http://discussions.virtualdr.com/Forum2/HTML/009594.html) http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif, follow what I wrote in the last post, (Starbuk) and see if that improves your memory while using the internet.

AND THIS (http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/Forum11/HTML/000836.html) http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif on IE5.

Hope This Helps: *** Starbuck ***


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[This message has been edited by Starbuck (edited December 09, 1999).]

[Dima]

Why it happens only on a new machines? On Pentium 133 with 32 I can open more then 40 windows... Vcache in Sysytem.ini do work. Now I can open not 10-12 but up to 20 windows. But, I have nothing to say...
What's the best choise with 128MB ?

[Starbuck]

Hi Dima; I have 128mg of Ram as well and my Vache is setup as follows and it works great:

[vcache]
MinFileCache=32768
MaxFileCache=32768
ChunkSize=512

You can copy and past the above in you C:\Windows\System.ini and test it out. Experiment with these setting though, as all systems are different.

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[Mainly Curious]

Hello there Dima, Well here are some articles that you may find interezting straight from the abyss itself.
Simply cut and paste the following links for information on;

Memory leaks in Windows 95 goto http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q148/3/36.asp

Memory Leaks in Windows 98 goto http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q185/8/32.ASP (notice how they address this one with simply restart your machine) You get the feeling Microsoft just don't care. http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/wink.gif

and Lastly from Team win98, Optimizing tricks http://technet.microsoft.com/cdonline/default-f.asp?target=http://technet.microsoft.com/cdonline/Content/Complete/windows/Win98/Reskit/Part5/wrkc26.htm
I hope this is what you were looking for and helps you.
Laterz...



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[Dima]

To: Mainly Curious
Thanx,
You say what's the problem if Microsoft by itself made it to be so:

...from the Microsoft:

SYMPTOMS
If you monitor your computer's free system resources (or memory), you may note that the resources have decreased even though no programs are currently running.

CAUSE
This behavior can occur if you start a program and then quit it before it has completely started. When you do so, memory is leaked, and your free system resources decrease.

RESOLUTION
To work around this issue, do not quit a program before it has completely started. To verify that all of your system resources have been freed, restart your computer.

MORE INFORMATION
A program that "leaks memory" is a program that does not release your computer's system resources (or memory) correctly. This can lead to your computer's system resources becoming so low that your computer may become unstable. If you restart your computer, all of your system resources should be available.

...so? What a joke!
Thank all of you.
Dima.

P.S.: I have a Pentium 133MHz 32Mb PC66 and Windows98 with IE5 running and nothing like that doesn't happening.