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Subject: Re: How do I stop my 512Mb PC600 RDRAM computer from running out of memory?

Author: Michael Williams

Date: 13:04:59 04/27/02

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On April 27, 2002 at 10:45:49, Keith Ian Price wrote:

>On April 27, 2002 at 01:18:18, Demian Affeldt wrote:
>
>>How do I stop my 512Mb PC600 RDRAM computer from running out of memory?  I
>>bought this much RAM thinking that it would rarely run out of memory...I try not
>>to have too many programs running at a time...but eventually (3hrs or so) a
>>dialog box pops up saying "Error: There is not enough memory to run this
>>program" (or something like that).
>>Is there a program out there that regulates memory so you don't run out or don't
>>run out so often?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>damo
>>
>>P.S. It's a Pentium 4 processor if that matters.
>
>If it is Windows 98 that you are running, upgrade to WinXP. Windows 98 has a
>mamory leak problem, in that when an application quits, it does not return the
>allocated memory to the system.

Does Windows Millenium have this problemn also?
My buddy says nothing is perfect, if you run a bunch of programs long enough,
eventually you should reboot.  I'm dumb enough to play Age of Empires, surf the
web, use Filemate 4.1 at the same time...



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