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Thread ID: 28056	2002-12-10 00:04:00	RAM	effie C (772)	Press F1

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104648	2002-12-10 00:04:00	Hi, I play chess- THAT GAME.COM and as I play up to 35 games at the same time- in sequence of course- I find the "opening and moving of pieces" etc get progressively slower and slower- my ram shows sic 58%- or less -- If I reboot I am back to the normal fast speed and 78%- should not the ram regenerate itself after use? I have 192 mb of ram - windows 98 SE and 500Mhz cpu. I have a friend who is also into this chess and he got down to 58% and after rebooting regained up to 65% RAM but his chess moves are much slower than mine- except when offline. He and I use a firewall and Nortons, but my moving does not slow while online- his does effie c	effie C (772)
104649	2002-12-10 00:10:00	Just to clarify something, you say that your ram drops in availability, but is it ram or "resources" that you are looking at? (They are not the same thing)	godfather (25)
104650	2002-12-10 02:39:00	Hi godfather, yes you are right -recources is the increase/decrease" I was reading- but how does that relate to ram? and why is the chess going so slow after moving in say 10 games - whereas if I reboot I regain the lost speed- I have actually literally had to reboot to get the thing to move at all- tho this is not so common Effie c	effie C (772)
104651	2002-12-10 03:00:00	Some software is poorly written, and does not release resources (actually a table of "pointers" to areas of memory may be a better explanation) Nothing you can do about it really, its probably the chess applications that are doing it. It probably doesn't release after each move. There maybe some programs available to release the resources, however I do not know what that would do to on-line chess games. (if it also released needed resources)	godfather (25)
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