>Dennis Thiel wrote:
>>
>the system either locks up or is so sluggish I have to
>> reboot. The lowest I've seen is 4% resources free. Any suggestions as to
>> why? I have minimal programs running in the background.
>
>Hi Dennis,
>I would recommend that you elect  to set your own virtual memory
>in win98... set it to a value  equal to  approx  2.5 times your
>ram installed in the system and see what happens..... sometimes
>windows get carried away doing this and uses up all your resources.
>Hope this helps.
>Joseph H. Bishop


Joseph,

I have 128MB RAM. A 320 MB swap file would be overkill. In fact, with this
much physical RAM, I should need less virtual memory. That is why I'm
baffled as to why my resources run so low. A friend who has 64 MB installed
has around 70% resources free while video conferencing with me using
Netmeeting. I do have a D partition that is 100 MB just for the swap file.

Has anyone on the list who has 128 MB or more ever disabled virtual memory?

Dennis Thiel

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