OK, but I did have 512 installed and I kept running low, so I doubled the
memory with the same result.

I understand that memory is there to be used, but the problem is that the
memory is DEPLETED rapidly using applications that are fairly well behaved on
my XP machine.

"Mike M" wrote:

Alan,

Memory is there to be used so that memory is being used comes to me as no
surprise, in fact I feel pretty confident that is why you have it
installed. g If memory wasn't there your swap file would simply be
bigger.

May I recommend you read a little about memory management and what this
means in practice. A good place to start would be Jim Eshelman's page on
memory management at http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.htm

One final point however. Running Win Me or any Win 9x system with more
than 512MB of RAM installed is going to cause problems unless you limit
the virtual cache to no more than 512MB otherwise you will rapidly run out
of upper memory address space. For details see the KB you mention
KB253912 ""Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM
Installed" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=253912)
--
Mike Maltby



Alan Ostrowitz Alan wrote:

Hi,

I have WIN ME with all recent patches applied. I have a memory
problem. As applications are opened, memory usage goes up
drastically. I first had 512 Meg installed, so yesterday I removed
the old memory and added 2 512 Meg chips. Same exact problem after
doubling the memory. My applications just suck up the memory. What
applications? Norton AV, Zonealarm, Wordperfect, AIM and AOL Radio,
Mozilla and Thunderbird.

For some perspective on this, I use the exact same applications on my
other machine running WinXP and 512 Meg memory with absolutely no
problems whatsoever, so there's definitely a memory manager problem.
I tried to adjust theMaxFileCache setting in System.ini, set it at
512 and the problem actually got worse (suggested in Q253912).

Any ideas?

Thanks
Alan