WinME memory limit

Heather wrote:

ROFL!! Just came on here and saw this "Sir Michael Gem".....you are
quite obviously more hilarious and wittier at 3 am than noon time.
LOL!! Love that British sense of humour......

Get to bed, young man!!

I hadn't realised how late it was my time. I was shutting down my systems
and doing some general housekeeping (computers of course g) before
heading for bed and popped in here to see if anyone had posted. Perhaps I
should confine my postings to the morning after I've had a couple of mugs
of caffeine. g--
Mike

Perhaps he's trying to make up for all those missing at the Pow Wow this
week g
Joan

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"Heather" wrote in message
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ROFL!! Just came on here and saw this "Sir Michael Gem".....you are quite
obviously more hilarious and wittier at 3 am than noon time. LOL!! Love
that British sense of humour......

Get to bed, young man!!

XX Figgs

"Mike M" wrote in message
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ClueLess wrote:

Not really as IMO opinion it is bad practice to try and run with
768MB of RAM and not limit vcache and this is likely to cause
regular "out of memory" errors. That you manage to have none is
fortunate but others are unlikely to be so lucky.

In addition I have also ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1 in the system.ini
file.

Why don't you run Win 95 whilst your at it?

I never ever had any out of memory problems, no BSOD etc

Not really surprising if you are using ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1 since
you are unnecessarily throttling your PC. I can only assume that you
like to live up to the name you have chosen for yourself.
--
Mike Maltby

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:12:57 +0100, "Mike M"
wrote:

Not really surprising if you are using ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1 since
you are unnecessarily throttling your PC. I can only assume that you like
to live up to the name you have chosen for yourself.

I have only stated my experience. I also wish to add that I edit lots
of movies and audio files and have never experienced any problem
whatsoever.

I may be clueless as to what is happening but what I have stated is a
fact, my expereince. Nothing to do with my cluelessness.

ClueLess, rarely.


Thanks for your time and attention

ClueLess

On Apr 16, 7:12�pm, "Mike M" wrote:


Why don't you run Win 95 whilst your at it?


Now that you mention it Win 95 can live happily in a computer with
lots of memory too, as long as you only have 512Mb of RAM when you
install it and afterwards it's good to limit the amount of RAM Win 95
uses to 768Mb with

[386Enh)
MaxPhysPage=30000

Claude

Was the reported 768MB instability chalked up to the vcache setting?
Was it real in WinME or a Win95 problem projected onto WinME?
Is it acknowledged at all for WinME?

What WERE the MS patches for memory size on WinME?
I seem to recall seeing at least one.

Thanks everybody.

Notes:

[386Enh]
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 [ Unlikely to help. any other
options? ]
MaxPhysPage=40000 [ 1 Gig memory limit ]

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288


On Apr 15, 7:20*pm, "Mike M" wrote:
To be honest there's little or nothing to be gained and perhaps even a
negative impact, in having ConservativeSwapfileUsage set equal to 1 when
running Win Me as this reverts swap file usage to the model used in
Windows 95.

From KB223294 "Windows 98 added a new feature,
PageFile_Call_Async_Manager, that allows the Memory Manager to
asynchronously write out page file (swap file) buffers during periods of
time when VFAT file system activity is not busy."

With 2GB of RAM setting MaxPhysPage=40000 is most sensible.
--
Mike Maltby




wrote:
I use Windows Me in a dual-boot system (actually quadruple-boot but
never mind) on a computer that has 2GB of RAM, with the following
lines added to system.ini

[386Enh]
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
MaxPhysPage=40000

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288

The [vcache] line is necessary, as explained by the other posters, I
don't quite remember why the ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 and
MaxPhysPage=40000 limits the memory used by Windows Me to 1GB. I've
read that things can get unstable above that, I never tried but why
take the chance? Having more than 1 GB of RAM available to Windows Me
won't make it happier anyway.

Yes acknowledged and I have already given the reference but since you
appear not to have read the thread from the start I will repeat it for
you.

MS KB 253912 - ""Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM
Installed" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=253912). If you bring up
this KB you will see it quite clearly stated that it applies to Win Me
which has the same architecture as Win 98/98SE.

What WERE the MS patches for memory size on WinME?

Again reading the entire thread will help you here starting with DG's
initial post and my reply. The only patch was for hibernation problems -
see MS KB 296773 but the updated copy of vmm.vxd has not been available
from Microsoft for some years.
--
Mike Maltby



Greegor wrote:

Was the reported 768MB instability chalked up to the vcache setting?
Was it real in WinME or a Win95 problem projected onto WinME?
Is it acknowledged at all for WinME?

What WERE the MS patches for memory size on WinME?
I seem to recall seeing at least one.

Thanks everybody.

Notes:

[386Enh]
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 [ Unlikely to help. any other
options? ]
MaxPhysPage=40000 [ 1 Gig memory limit ]

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288