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Subject: Re: memory under win2000

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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