question about system resources...

[JayP]

I notice when I first boot up windows my resources start at about 87% free. But when I stop using my computer for some hours and come back, my free system resources shrink to about 77% How could this be if no other programs are running except the ones that booted with windows start-up?

Does this have to do with the fact that my computer happens to be the server for my home network? ...and if so, even if I am not physically at my desk using my computer, others on my LAN who use the internet connection through my system use up my system resources?

[outhouse]

What OS are you using? if its a 9X then its your memory leaking wich is quite normal [OS's fault.] However 87% is not that good, i would go into msconfig and cleanup your startup menu. I think i start up at 94% and you can too.

[Yodums]

Win 98 is common for doing that.

It has bad memory management.

I don't think theres anyway to prevent this but move to NT Kernal.

Yodums

[lennytiger]

HI Guys here's a screenshot from my Win2k Service Pack 2

Here it shows memory as you can see winfah(folding@home) is takin up the most memory!!

I have had several problems with this, and now i have upgraded to 256Mb RAM with the same problems, the paging file is
is at 450Mb Max... Any Ideas??]

[JayP]

what about if i changed my virtual memory settings? would that help my problems or make them worse?