My system consumes a lot of memory

[Ydur]

I have Infineon 256 MB (CAS 2,2,2/5t) and when I copy a great arquive to my HD (Seagate Medalist), like a full cdrom, my memory go to 0 (zero) kb. It´s forces me to use a program like Rambooster. Someone help me?
Ydur®

[Mushkin Rules]

Ydur, will get back to you soon, I got to go to Easter Mass

[Mushkin Rules]

What OS r u using? I guess it's not W2K, because its memory management is better than Win98/ME

First, try to set Video ROM BIOS Shadow to Diabled in bios setting under Shadow Configuration. If you use modern AGP card like nVidia GeForce or TNT, your card already can handle everything. Disabled it will free up some memory.

Second, it could have something to do with MaxFileCache & Vcache setting in your windows sysconfig.

Topics in MS knowledge base: "Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed might be relevant, although you only use 256 MB. See it here: http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q253/9/12.ASP

Edit your system.ini file in the windows directory - under the [386Enh] heading Add the line ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 This can significantly reduce Virtual memory use as it makes Windows use (fast) RAM before the (slow) Swapfile. Use permanent swapfile instead of temporary. This setting will tell Windows not to use the swap file at all until all of the RAM is used. After all of the RAM is used, the computer will push most of the infrequently used data to the swap file. This is a great tweak. This is particularly beneficial for those with 256MB RAM. Try also to set the maxfilecache, minfilecache, chuncksize.

Read WinME Tips (also can be used for Win98/SE): http://members.accessus.net/~090/awh/winmetip.html
Under More Speed

[Mushkin Rules]

Another tips and utilities:

Tuning Guide for Windows NT/2000: http://www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml


Utilities: http://www.sysinternals.com/

[patentman]

Have you enabled DMA for HD?Not that is your problem but is a bottleneck.
My experience with Memturbo is bad.That thing could only make worse(that mem defragment it does).Also when was working,my system was enough slower.Used that with 128Mb,160Mb,256Mb mem.98`s and ME`s mem management is better.I think that progs are for those who have under 32MB or so.
Check if Rambooster sucks too.

[Mushkin Rules]

Yeah, don't forget to set the DMA on your HDD & also set the DMA reserve buffer to 64 in the device manager setting. You can see full instruction in the Windows tips link I gave you under Speed.

[johnpapgr]

Memturbo is bad. But Cacheman is excellent. It's just a nice GUI interface which let you set the min & max vcache size, the chunk size, the conservative swap file usage (as Mushkin Rules mentioned, great setting if you have plenty of RAM), the name & path cache size, plus a setting for unloading Dlls faster when not in use (Win9x is very slow at that.
The current version of Cacheman is 4.1, it is freeware and can be found at http://www.outertech.com

[Ydur]

For example:
If I'm burn a cd with image file, my memory go to zero, but if I burn on the fly my memory go to 180/190 MB (it's ok, right?). I think that my 13/10 GB Seagate HD have somekind of problem. Hey, I have my Segates HD in drawers, may it be the problem? The drawers HD cable extension isn't ATA 66 but the cable conect on CUSL2's IDE is.
I'm using Win98SE. One friend has the same configuration (without drawers) and don't have this kind of problem
My system:
Win98SE
Pentium III 800 EB
CUSL2
Asus V7700 64MB
256 MB Infinenon PC 133 (CAS 2,2,2/5,7T)
13 GB Seagate hard drive
10 GB Seagate hard drive
Soundblaster Live Xgamer
HP8200 CDwriter
Creative 48x cdrom

[Ydur]

And yes... I did't forget to set DMA on HDD

[xbwfo]

Try this.
Edit system.ini
Under the heading [vcache] add these lines:
maxfilecache=65536
minfilecache=65536
chunksize=1024