Author: Martin Giepmans
Date: 09:31:55 03/17/02
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On March 16, 2002 at 17:42:07, martin fierz wrote: >aloha! > >i just wrote a program which computes checkers endgame databases; i'm working on >the 8-piece database. my PC has win2000 on and 1GB ram. i have noticed something >strange: the task manager says that my application has used a maximum of 577'000 >KB (i've forgotten the last 3 digits). but in fact, it is using much more, on >some seed passes on the database, where it has to use the results in other >databases, it needs over 1GB. i just upgraded my PC from 640MB to 1GB to build >this db more efficiently, because the disk access hurts the performance, but it >still says that the maximum mem used is 577'000KB - even though it would have >much more ram to use now. does anybody have an idea why windows won't let me use >this ram? > >cheers > martin I have a program called Casheman. It mentions in it's helpfile that it can correct "generic problems on systems with more than 512 MB of RAM". So maybe you have a "generic problem", whatever that means ;) IIRC you can download a free version of Casheman at http://www.outertech.com. It's a nice tool that can also help with other problems (too much paging, too large diskcache, etc). Another Martin
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