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Memory MUST PROVE POINT!

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by s6xtyn9ne

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Ok. I have a friend who doesnt believe me about a memory issue (ram). Sooo, I must prove it to him by having YOU answer. Yes points will be awarded to everyone who answers correctly to this stuipd question. Ok, I have FIC az11 board which supports up to 1.5 gig sdram 133 mhz. I have 384 installed. Now, im running 98. It recognizes all of it. The thing is, my friend is INSISTING that windows only uses 128 megs MAXIMUM no matter what you are doing. Now, whats the deal>

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by dmiles

According to Microsoft-Theoretical amount of memory supported by Win 98 is 512Mb
Theoretical stated quanities is that in test it has been proven that beyond 128mb,system performance is impaired,no definite answer to why limits exist.
Sugested the way operating system provides memory through logical mapping,maybe most efficient optimised for 128mb and below.
This does not state that the memory cannot be used in excess of 128mb,one instance is that creating large data bases the memory will be used.One part he is right,the other part he is not about how applications will use memory over 128mb no mater what you are doing.

by s6xtyn9ne

Im runnging 384, and ive found nothing but improvement over 128. I havent encountered any problems. Just need to tweak it a bit to allocate the ram a little better. Just add 98304 for minfile and maxfilecache and it works fine.

by tbradley

Windows 98, like NT can use up to 4gb of Ram, but I think your friend is confused as to how windows uses that ram.

He is right, in one respect, that above a certain limit, windows does not make the most effective use of ram, and instead of usingvchache, insists on increasing the swap file size instead. Think back to the good old days when Microsoft swore that NOBODY would ever use more than 640kb of ram.

This can be fixed by changing the following line in system.ini ( 386enh )

ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

by default, win95 was 1, 98 was zero ( ugh!)

by s6xtyn9ne

True, but microsoft lies their asses off. Everything will go up. There isnt a limits on 98 that anyoen can really reach right now. Like i told soulrider, I havent encountered any problems, but i also tweak it just a bit. Thanx.

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