Author: William Penn
Date: 04:32:55 10/12/02
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On October 12, 2002 at 07:14:44, pavel wrote: >On October 12, 2002 at 07:08:12, William Penn wrote: > >> >>I've been studying this for awhile, and I'm now fairly sure that Fritz7 has a >>memory drain with W98se. If I monitor the free physical RAM with the W98 System >>Monitor while Fritz7 is running in infinite calculation mode with 128MB hash >>table on a 500MHz Celeron processor, 256MB RAM system, it gradually ticks down >>towards zero. Eventually it arrives at zero and then the computer becomes very >>sluggish and perhaps crashes. The rate of memory drain is about 2MB per minute. >>So it depends on how much free physical memory you have to start. If you have a >>lot, and you don't run Fritz7 for very long, it might not tick down to zero. But >>for those who run Fritz7 for long periods, it may become a serious problem. >> >>I think I've found a temporary solution. Of course the Fritz7 programmers need >>to fix this serious bug, but in the meantime... >> >>I'm testing a special little utility which boosts the free physical RAM by a >>preset amount every x minutes. It is somewhat arbitrary what settings to use, >>but I'm boosting to a minimum of 32MB RAM every 4 minutes. That means the free >>memory ticks down to about 24MB, then gets boosted back to 32MB, then ticks down >>to about 24MB, then gets boosted back to 32MB, ad infinitum in 4 minute cycles. >>There are several such utilities available, and I've only tried this one, which >>seems OK for this simple task. It's very simple and easy to understand & use. >>It's called "CyberLat RAM Cleaner" which can be downloaded at: >>http://www.cyberlatino.com.mx/ >>Yes, much of that website is in Spanish because the author lives in Mexico, but >>this software utility is written in English. >> >>The other consideration with W95/W98/W98se/WinMe is of course system resources, >>which are quite limited with those op systems. (WinNT/2000/XP don't have that >>problem.) But Fritz7 is not too greedy in that regard, and that's not the >>problem here. The problem is definitely a memory drain. Some might call it a >>memory leak. >>WP > >It is a well known fact that Previous MS OS like Win95, Win98 and WinME has >serious memory leak problems. I have running Chessbase products for few yrs now >both in Windows2000 and WindowsXP machines, so far I didn't have any memory leak >problems. > >I suspect the OS is to be blamed, not the program. >Also programs like "RAM Cleaner" is going to mess up (or rather, Clean Up) the >hash tables of the program. > >Solution: Get rid of Win98. And Get Win2k. > >pavs I disagree. The problem is a bug in the Fritz7 software. It needs to be fixed. The problem is not with the W95/98/98se/Me op systems. Software needs to take the nature of those op systems into account, and provide for them. They cannot be disregarded. The solution is NOT to change the op system, but to have the lazy Fritz7 programmers fix their bug! WP
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