Author: William Penn
Date: 07:49:40 10/12/02
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On October 12, 2002 at 09:07:14, Terry Ripple 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 >-------------- > >One of the very best utilities for boosting your Ram is called "Rambooster" and >the latest version is 1.6. This is a free ram booster that has very good reviews >and has been around for several years! One of the good things about this utility >is that it can run using less than 1 mb from your resources and hardly robs any >of your CPU power according to the programmer! > >Do a search in Google for "Rambooster" and the programmer's name is J.Pajula! >It's been offered on CNET.com, but don't know if it is still available for >download from this site. If you are interested in this utility and you have no >luck finding it, send me an email and i will be happy to send it to you as it's >quite a small download of only about 950 Kb. > >Regards, > Terry > acesbrew@hotmail.com Thanks. I have a list of a half-dozen RAM boosters, including that one. The one I chose to try first seems to be working OK: CyberLat RAM Booster. I'm happy with it. Thanks anyway... WP
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