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Topic: help
started by: BlackFlag

Posted by BlackFlag on Jan. 15 2002,14:39

ok, how does windows run out of memory when there's still 140+ mb of ram free?

just got done one of my frequent "fuck with the computer" sessions yesterday, and im experiencing the usual "how the fuck did that happen" type symptoms.

note: currently running with 256mb ram.

Posted by Jimi on Jan. 15 2002,17:13

you know what windows is like, it could be using the full 256 but telling you there is 140+ free. Or it is more likely that whatever you did has now left you not enough RAM to fix and you will have to format but don't listen to me as I don't know how to help unless the computer is actually in front of me.

I'm crap at diagnosing problems without the box sitting there wuring at me... or not as the case may be.

Posted by kornalldaway on Jan. 16 2002,04:03

there's difference if windows runs out of memory or if it runs out of vitual memory. virtual memory is windows page file, and if u were trying to process a very large image or something like that it could have ran out of pageing space.
that's how i understand it
and it seems to be that if u had some ram free

Posted by BlackFlag on Jan. 16 2002,07:32

well, i messed with the vcache settings, and other virtual memory settings and crap like that earlier today. only one crash so far today. i think that's good.

thanks for the advice.

Posted by CNCJake on Jan. 16 2002,19:22

my general rule of thumb is, double the number of vcache, as the number of RAM.

Posted by TonyDennis on Jan. 19 2002,09:00

win2k uptime: 4wks 4days 7hrs 28mins 35secs

You guys need some serious lessons in stability.

Posted by ASCIIMan on Jan. 19 2002,09:44

Heh. Yeah, I once got up to somewheres around 3.5 months uptime on NT4, maybe 60 days on 2k. Then I snapped out of it and decided that uptime wasn't all that (although I still only reboot when I need too - ie service packs and hotfixes). I decided I liked having a secure system better than having obscenely high uptimes. (If you're running NT/2k you have to pick one or the other, because someone/some company has not yet afaik made a tool allowing hot-patching a running NT/2k system).

Posted by Spydir on Jan. 19 2002,17:29

I always wanted to make some system to hotpatch a linux kernel. I figured if you somehow loaded both kernels (old and new) into memory, then had a "system freeze" of sorts, it could work.