Win 98se... Memory...

[vizun]

I was just wondering what the maximum amount of memory windows 98se can hold? RIght now i have 256, and i really need the extra ram, *Some programs i am using have slight memory leaks...* Ne way.

THanks!

[Kubie]

vizun,

For Win98, 512mb is the magic number.

Go Big Red!

Carl

[andyms18a]

if the progs you use nick the memory try this prog http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/ its very good i use it on all my computers win98 and me and evan xp and best of all its free

[galaxian]

Windows does not need free memory in order to run.

Memory managers on their own, do nothing. It is WINDOWS that is doing all the work.

Free ram is wasted ram.

The following does the IDENTICAL thing, and uses the same trick.

Open Notepad, and copy the following into it, and save it as "freemem.vbs" including the quotes!

FreeMem = Space(nnnnnnnnn)

Where the nnnnnnnnn is the amount of memory you are trying to "clear".

nnnnnnnnn=900000000 is 90meg.

You save this with a VBS extension, and as long as you have Windows Scripting Host enabled, double click on it.

How does this work?

If the statement were FreeMem = Space(90000000), then when you run it, it asks WINDOWS for a memory allocation of 90Megs. Windows will then shrink vcache and move stuff to the swapfile until it has 90 megs available, and gives it to this VBS script. As fast as that happens, the script ends and the memory is taken back by WINDOWS as free memory.

As I said above, this is exactly the same "magic" that memory "managers" use. And from this example, you can see that it is really Windows that is doing all the work, and that the same thing will happen when a "real" program asks for ram.

But, if you enjoy exercising your disk drive and your swapfile, these are definitely the programs to run.

As for the maximum ram, the practical limit seems to be around 1GB. Above that "may" cause errors and some between 768 and 1GB "may" experience errors.
Above 512, you need to constrain vcache, in System.ini

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=512000