Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 14:58:44 04/27/02
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On April 27, 2002 at 16:04:59, Michael Williams wrote: >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... Yes, WinME has that problem also. WinNT flavors (2000, XP) do not have the problem of leaking memory. Before last week, when I rebooted to install a new hard drive, my machine running WinXP had been up for about a month. Currently, uptime is about one week, and I've never had a problem caused by excessive uptime.
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