System Resources Low!

[Guest]

I have an A7V (1003) and an 800t-bird w/ 128 ram. I have had a problem with system resources running out awfully fast. I will have AIM and IE5 open and my resources will be below 70%!! The only other programs running are Explorer, systray...ect... It is usually about 6 programs running. With my old p166 w/48ram I get about 85% free with the same load. Any suggestions? Thanks

 

[Guest]

Hey,

When i find an answer I'll get you one. My resources are low like that too. I can't figure out why. I'm running a K7-750 with 256 mb ram. I have a decent setup and yet my resources are low. I hope someone can help us both meanwhile I'll look into it.

Timothy Stankus
One of the First AMD Athlon Users =)

 

[Guest]

This may not help, but I just found a decent memory help called Cacheman. It optimizes chunk size and stuff like that and recovers RAM memory after a program is closed.
Still don't know of any effective solution to the Swap file problem. If someone could find a way to manage that effectively and keep it cleaned out constantly that would be nice!

 

[machow]

To me low memory resources is a good sign as the computer is using the available memory... I'm not sure about virtual memory. I'm running w2k with IE and the resources keep going up... from boot up of 130MB to 210MB 😱 after an hour... but when I try shutting down IE the resources plunged back to 210... What I guess is all history files of IE is stored in RAM for quicker access, eliminating the need to access the slower HDD. BTW i have 256MB ram 😎 and now it's 170MB... and no use of virtual mem yet I think.


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[Guest]

SO where can I find this cacheman program?
Can I get it from download.com or it is something that you have to purchase?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Get a RAM cleaner from <b>www.analogx.com</b> it works for me.. I have 128RAM.. after some gaming and net browsing it drops down to 20megs free!!! After I run this thingie.. it goes up above 80megs..

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[Guest]

Are you sure that ram has to do with system resources because I also have a ram freer prog and I will go from like 16 megs free to about 75 megs free and it will not do anything to the system resources. Do you think that this has to do with a ram prog that doesn't work?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

What you need to do is check the background programs and drivers you have running. Check your startup folder and see what programs are starting up with windows. Also check the windows configuration utility. Start>programs>accesories>system tools>system information
Then click on the Tools>windows>windows startup(if I recall right)
Check your startup programs. You can also use a program similar to task manager in NT/2000 called TaskInfo to view all the running tasks, including memory usage, CPU time,etc..

 

[Guest]

Don't trust the resources free supplied by windows - it's FOS. Trust a third party doobry that cleans and / or checks your system resources.

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[jobe]

BY any chance are you running WinME?

jObE

 

[Guest]

SYSTEM RESOURCES HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE AMOUNT OF RAM!!

System resources refers to the allocation of a very small section of ram. (64kb in win98/ME. It was only 32kb in win95. Unlimited in WinNT/2K)

System resources are used by programs to display windows, icons, lines, command buttons. Almost every graphical component that a program asks windows to draw needs some of those system resources.

On my machine windows uses about 20%, every copy of IE running eats up about 3%. Larger programs like Coral Draw 9 take up 17%, and 3D Studio Max eats up a whopping 54%.

You don't need to worry about resources unless you get down to about 15%. Below that dialogs will start missing buttons, windows will show up without title bars or scroll bars etc because there isn't any resources for the program to use to show them.

If you are running out because you use many large programs the only solution is to switch to winNT or Win2K.

ps. I strongly advise against using any Memory Defragmentors, Doublers, etc. I have never seen an instance where these programs have had a positive effect on performance - and they can't solve the resources problem(in fact they'd just make it worse cause they'd want some resources too.)