On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:12:16 -0500, Robert Zeoli <[log in to unmask]> posted article
<[log in to unmask]>, which said:

> How much RAM should I buy running win 98, on a PIII 667.  I have 256mgs now
> at 133, but with the prices so low I thining about getting 512 or more.  I
> like to run a few apps open at a time like a network, browser, realplayer,
> SMAC, excel, and access.  I'm not sure but I think I read some where that
> Windows only utilizes so much ram and any more is wasted, I may be wrong
> about that.  I have an ASUS P3V133 motherboard that has a capacity of 1.5
> gig.  Would that just be wasted?

Well, I just upgraded from 256 to 512 and was getting out-of-memory errors after
the upgrade and setting the MaxFileCache in the vcache section of the system.ini
file did not solve the problem. I had to reformat and reinstall after America
Online literally screwed up all the ports on my PC somehow or another.  Ever
since I reformatted I have not been getting out of memory errors.  I was hoping
that perhaps Windows might not necessarily like it that much when you add memory
and something went right.  Now I know better than to say this because in about
15 minutes I will get an out of memory error.  I thought this reinstall might
have fixed my incessant winsock problems and after uploading 20 megabytes I
thought it was fixed and posted my message of adulation to a newsgroup.
Literally 5 minutes later I got the same old winsock error. :-(

Ethan

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