Is windows 98se this bad of a RAM manager?

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sandman001

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• Apr 11, 2003

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I just restarted, then my mom asks if I want to go out for a bit.

When I come back about 45mins later I have 12 megs out of 320 total left. I didn't have anything running, not even a screensaver.

Is this normal?

 

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RamFan

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• Apr 11, 2003

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Solution

I've used a program called CacheMan with good results. I know it works very well managing RAM with >512MB in Win98 but I suspect it would help with your setup. It's freeware, you can find it at a lot of freeware sites.

 

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sandman001

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• Apr 11, 2003

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alright, thanks for the suggestion. Will try it.

 

zabomb4163

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• Apr 11, 2003

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rambooster worked really well for me under windowsME (i hated that piece of crap os)

 

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sandman001

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• Apr 11, 2003

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I had rambooster, but it would make the cpu be 100% load after I would free up Ram. so it didn't work so wel. Cacheman seems to be working. Thanks.

 

dustybyrd

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• Apr 12, 2003

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i have seen a few poorly written programs (like endnote) that actually continually chew up memory---even in windows XP...

in the endnote program there was a default setting that was causing the program to constantly reformat the document with the footnotes...each time consuming a little more RAM

 

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• Apr 14, 2003

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you may want to manually set your vcache.
try:
minfilecache=8192
maxfilecache=65536