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

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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