WTF is wrong with windows 98?

[RichieZ]

I've got 256MB PC133 ram, and after only 18 minutes i'm down to 10MB free ram. I manually set the swap file to 500MB, but there's plenty free. I do not use the cocervative swap file option. What the hell is using all my ram? I turned off almost everything in MSCONFIG. And when i boot up i usually have like 160MB free. WTF is going on!

 

[Motorheader]

It sounds as if you need a resource heap manager such as Cacheman. This will help you with your memory heap no matter how memory you physically have in the system.

 

[Frosty192]

It sounds like a program running in the backround has a serious memory leak.
Try running each program individually to see wich one is causing a problem.

 

[Motorheader]

Leave the swap file alone and get the freeware - this is the voice of experience. You have already done a good thing by getting rid of some of the junk with msconfig, now it is time to help Windows with managing its system resource heap. Opening and closing programs eats up resources no matter how much memory you have, Windows needs help managing and freeing up those resources as they are used and released. There are others besides Cacheman, but they all try to do the same thing.

 

[MR2DI4]

I second the Cacheman suggestion. I have found it to be a very useful and efficient tool for disk cache control.

MR2DI4

 

[Taz4158]

I agree with the Cacheman idea and by all means USE conservativeswapfileusage. It can make a large difference.