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| 204974 | 2004-01-03 02:03:00 | My computer, running Windows 98 SE has taken to telling me that there is not enough memory to run certain programmes. This includes such dumb things as opening the my computer folder, but also running Internet Explorer, various games and so on. Even weirder, if you right click and highlight open, everything is fine. I have 512MB of RAM. Why on earth should I be short of memory. I will admit to keeping Dragon seven running in the background in case I need to write, but I have done this for a long time without this problem. Any ideas would be appreciated.Bumfluff. | Bumfluff (3523) | ||
| 204975 | 2004-01-03 17:59:00 | that particular error message refers to a lack of hard drive space.........it means the system has chewed up the ram and is trying to use a swapfile/pagefile and that it cant find enuf room to do so.........have you limited your swapfile in size ?...........maybe you could set it larger.........in older machines it was often the case that the machine clogged up with crap after months/years of running and there was no room for the swapfile........ | drcspy (146) | ||
| 204976 | 2004-01-04 00:40:00 | it is not likely to be a limited swapfile that is causing this issue as you have 512MB of RAM, that is more than adequite for what you are doing. Whats happened is your RESOURCES have become critically low. these resources are called GDI and USER and are something win9x has to keep backwards compatability. do a search or check out the FAQ i did a while back, about this stuff. |
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| 204977 | 2004-01-04 02:18:00 | well it's extremely easy to check the amount of hdd space remaining and if it's less than 150mb or so then it's very likely that those errors will occur....... my own system has 512mb of DDR ram and yet it always seems to be usign the swap file to some extent...... |
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| 204978 | 2004-01-04 11:27:00 | If the hdd is badly fragmented it will give problems with the swap file too. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 204979 | 2004-01-05 08:28:00 | this error message actually has nothing to with ram, werid i know, its actually refering to DOS memory. once you get over 512 meg some tweaking is in order. i suggest cacheman .......www.outertech.com i think has it. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 204980 | 2004-01-05 09:34:00 | sounds like you have installed something lately that is resource hungry, try uninstalling the last thing you installed that sits in your system tray. | skinnerjack (4296) | ||
| 204981 | 2004-01-05 19:02:00 | the message does refer to a lack of system memory or more usually lack of swapfile space...............the user has 512mb ram sure but so do I (DDR in my case) and yes the system still insists on usin a swap file always...............even when only half the ram is being used.....for example right now I've got 309Mb free ram yet 178Mb is being used as a swapfile (pagefile)............crazy windoze....... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 204982 | 2004-01-05 22:09:00 | Thanks to everyone for the advice although the problem seems to have disappeared, I suspect temporarily -Windows again. There are a couple of things that I will have to try but it's difficult when the problem is intermittent. Certainly my hard disk is fragmented, I had to interrupted defrag. the other day which had taken about four hours when I needed the computer to work on. The only programme I have installed lately which seems to be RAM hungry is civilisation three. On the other hand I have a 40GB hard disk of which about eight to 10 is in use. I let Windows handle the memory situation, I checked and it would seem to be able to use up to whatever is available roughly. I checked the download suggested and it looked on with the complicated for an old bloke like me. Thanks again --Bumfluff. | Bumfluff (3523) | ||
| 204983 | 2004-01-06 21:09:00 | Yes it will be an intermitant problem, as the problem only ever occurs when you run out of RESOURCES. If you want to monitor these, i believe you can do this throught start --> progs --> accesories --> system tools -->system monitor then choose to add a monitor and monitor your GDI and USER resources, by doing this you will be able to find the prog that is using all your RESOURCES. RESOURCES does not = RAM drcspy, quite surprised you continue along your line with the swapfile given that more experienced people here have indicated what the problem is. For your information. YES you can get an "out of memory" message if your swapfile becomes full, but more than likely the system will just crash. However win9x is notorious for running out of RESOURCES ever before your swapfile runs out. (Note this doesn't happen in WinXP) the fact that the swapfile is in use while you still have free RAM means nothing, it just means windows is doing some "memory management'. If you would like less loaded in the swapfile and more into RAM then you might want to investiage the "conservativeswapfileusage=1" option in the [386enh] section of your "system.ini" |
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