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Thread ID: 22192 2002-07-14 05:25:00 Memory leak following upgrade Megan (1031) Press F1
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62355 2002-07-14 05:25:00 Hi,
I've just upgraded from:

K6/300, 128MB, NVidia Vanta graphics, Genius sound card and ISA modem

to:

Duron 1 . 1G, 256MB Corsair PC2100 DDR RAM, on a Gigabyte 7VKML with onboard graphics, sound and network .

Running the same s/ware as before .

I keep getting 'The computer has run out of memory to run application' errors which is very strange considering things ran on the old setup no probs . I've installed a memory utility trial program (WinRAM-Booster Pro) which shows the memory usage . It shows plenty of free memory when I get the errors although the gigabyte utility sometimes has shown low physical memory .

Physical memory showing on the Gibabyte utility is 228480KB . I've got Windows set to control memory under Control Panel-System . Another interesting consideration is that at the shown rate of memory usage, my old system would have locked up frequently as it ran out of memory - sure I got the odd blue screen of death or other error, but not THAT often .

Today I copied ~250MB of files from one HDD to another, that chewed up memory and used about 80-90% of the available memory . A RAM optimisation from WinRam brought it straight back down to about 15-20% usage . Again, I did this copying of my data files occasionally on the old setup, no probs .

Any ideas why this memory hole has developed, or what I can do plug it back up again????

cheers

Megan :-)
Megan (1031)
62356 2002-07-14 05:36:00 firstly what os are you talking about? and did you format reinstall on the new system? tweak'e (174)
62357 2002-07-22 02:17:00 Try cacheman its free , kiwibeat (304)
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