anyone know why winFAH takes more memory?

hooziewhatsit · Jan 30, 2002

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 · Jan 30, 2002

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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 · Jan 30, 2002

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 · Jan 30, 2002

Ploaf said:
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.

Ploaf · Jan 30, 2002

JetMech said:
Sorry about not leaving a link. I'm not to good at they go here trick.

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 · Jan 30, 2002

Ploaf said:
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 · Jan 30, 2002

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

fold on!

Ploaf · Jan 30, 2002

JetMech said:
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.

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 · Jan 30, 2002

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 · Jan 31, 2002

Ploaf said:
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 · Jan 31, 2002

wouldnt it cost less just to buy more ram

JetMech · Feb 1, 2002

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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.

anyone know why winFAH takes more memory?

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