Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:10:09 10/13/02
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On October 12, 2002 at 11:19:27, Terry Ripple wrote: >On October 12, 2002 at 10:49:40, William Penn wrote: > >>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 >-------------- > >Be sure you check out how much of the resources and CPU power it uses because >according to the programmer of "Rambooster", several of the other boosters take >more from the resources than they actually give back!! > >Terry How good (or bad) do you think "MemoryBoost Pro" is?
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