Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:35:42 03/17/02
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On March 17, 2002 at 12:31:55, Martin Giepmans wrote: >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 I've had CacheMan installed for a few weeks (my system has 1.25 GB of RAM and is running WinXP) and my system indeed DOES seem to be more stable and to hit the disk less.
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