win98 memory management

[Ulozas]

Does anyone know how to get win98 to refresh system memory, or something along the lines of that. I had win 95 with 128 megs of ram and it was almost impossible to get the ram down below 30%. With win98 and 256 megs I can only open like 10 things then i'm down to about 20%. Then when I close everything part of the ram is still in use.

[Box]

First of all, windows is horrible when it comes to memory management. It often fails to free memory spaces of stuffs that aren’t needed as more. Also windows uses a big chunk of your memory as disk cache. So no matter how big your system memory is, you would still end up with very little memory free because of the disk caching. One way to solve this is to use a third party memory management tool that allows you to manually or systematically free up memories. However, there is a down side to this. The third party memory manager has to be memory resident as well, and it this would deprive you more of your already scarce free memory. So make sure the third party memory manager does a good enough job to justify the trade off.

[umair79]

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oh yeah, I found a settingthat forces Win98 to use physical RAM before it
looks to the swapfile for divine guidance..

if you have more than 64 megabytes of RAM and you're running Windows 98,
youshould give this a shot...

In your SYSTEM.INI file, under the [386Enh] section,

type "ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1" (without the quotes

Reboot, and I believe you'll find your system more responsive.