anyone know why winFAH takes more memory?

[hooziewhatsit]

Today, right after I rebooted, I looked and winFAH took up about 2.5 megs. Now, quite a few hours later, it's using 26 megs of memory. Core 65 stays about the same over the same amount of time. Anyone know why it does this? Or a way to fix it other than closing and restarting the client? I'm using XP pro if that makes a difference.


fold on!

[JetMech]

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I use a program called WinRam Booster. It is a free ram optimization proggy that recovers ram that becomes unavailable over time due to leaks. F@H leaks like a sieve. There is nothing else I know of to prevent this. It's the result of poor programming and just another of those things folders have to be wary of.

[Ploaf]

I thought that they fixed the memory leak but I was checking my machines last night and noticed that the memory was very low on all of them. I hadn't had that problem in a while and wonder if it isn't related to the new core or the new proteins that we've been getting. Anyway - I've been using freemem to take care of that sort of thing. http://www.meikel.com/en/products/freemem/

Here's a link to winram booster too. I was looking at that and it looks interesting as well - http://www.totalidea.de/help.htm

[JetMech]

Originally posted by Ploaf
I thought that they fixed the memory leak but I was checking my machines last night and noticed that the memory was very low on all of them. I hadn't had that problem in a while and wonder if it isn't related to the new core or the new proteins that we've been getting. Anyway - I've been using freemem to take care of that sort of thing. http://www.meikel.com/en/products/freemem/

Here's a link to winram booster too. I was looking at that and it looks interesting as well - http://www.totalidea.de/help.htm Sorry about not leaving a link. I'm not to good at they go here trick.:o

[Ploaf]

Originally posted by JetMech
Sorry about not leaving a link. I'm not to good at they go here trick.:o

I was just at both of those sites looking them over too see what the differences were. Otherwise I wouldn't have thought about it either since most of this stuff is easy enough to find at download.com. :)

[JetMech]

Originally posted by Ploaf
I thought that they fixed the memory leak but I was checking my machines last night and noticed that the memory was very low on all of them. I hadn't had that problem in a while and wonder if it isn't related to the new core or the new proteins that we've been getting. Anyway - I've been using freemem to take care of that sort of thing. http://www.meikel.com/en/products/freemem/

Here's a link to winram booster too. I was looking at that and it looks interesting as well - http://www.totalidea.de/help.htm Just made a purchase of the Freemem Pro Ploaf. Also went crazy and got Sandra Pro bundled with it. I like the ability to run it in the background and auto free the memory. Thanks for the heads up.:beer:

[hooziewhatsit]

Cool, I'll check out these links once I get some time.
thanks

fold on!

[Ploaf]

Originally posted by JetMech
Just made a purchase of the Freemem Pro Ploaf. Also went crazy and got Sandra Pro bundled with it. I like the ability to run it in the background and auto free the memory. Thanks for the heads up.:beer:

wow that's pretty cool. I didnt' know if the other one would free memory automatically. I will probably buy it myself since it seems to work really well. I'm still using the eval copy of pro. How much was the combo?

[Gandalf]

I use MemTurbo.

And about winFAH using a lot of memory..........mine has been running for 5 hours and it is still only using 5MB's.

[JetMech]

Originally posted by Ploaf


wow that's pretty cool. I didnt' know if the other one would free memory automatically. I will probably buy it myself since it seems to work really well. I'm still using the eval copy of pro. How much was the combo? $45.00 roughly. and 4 of that was download protection.

[Ebola]

wouldnt it cost less just to buy more ram :)

[JetMech]

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The amount of ram is not the problem. When you start a folding machine out with 512Mb of ram and 4 days later you're down to 53mb something is wrong, especially when all you're doing is folding. This is happening on all three of my machines. I only use Sdr ram on one system so buying more ram for me would be prohibitive. I consider paying $45.00 to be a much less expensive solution. The Mempro proggy alone is $20.00 so adding it to all the machines is still cheaper than ram. The program once setup properly monitors and automatically recovers resources tied up by leaks.