I'm responding to your reply after quite a delay and I apologize.  I AM
still having 'out of memory' problems and would like advice on how to
troubleshoot this problem or atleast be pointed in a direction where I
might find some tips.

Thanks,
-Rick Poepping

Dave Gillett wrote:
>
> On 7 Jun 99, at 16:50, Rick P wrote:
>
> > I've been getting 'Out of Memory' errors for a while now and have been
> > trying to figure it out.  I have an AMD K6-2 300 w/ 64M PC 100 ram, 1M
> > L2 cache 7.6G HD in 5G/2G/500M partitions.  My intention was to put my
> > swap file on the 500M partition as the only thing there.  I believe I
> > had it set up this way once.  I am running Win98.  I checked to see what
> > the setting was and found it set on 'Let Windows control my Memory' or
> > what ever that choice is.  I got there by going to Control Panel,
> > System, Performance, Virtual Memory.  I click the radio button next to
> > 'Let me specify my own virtual memory settings'  I pick the partition I
> > want and click OK, I accept the warning that I am not letting Win98 do
> > its thing, say yes.  But if I go back and look at the settings, the 'Let
> > Windows manage my virtual memory settings' radio button is selected
> > again!!!  How do I make this change stick????
>
>   In addition to specifying the partition where you want the swap file to go,
> you need to tweak its minimum and maximum sizes.  For best results, you want
> these to be the same, and you want this value to be at least a few K smaller
> than the size reported for the partition.  This reported size may be after
> rounding, so if you set the size to completely use the partition, it may
> actually be a little bigger than the available space -- Windows says "Oops,
> invalid manual setting, I better take control back from the user..."
>
>   Note that if you have enough free space on C: and WIndows managing your
> swap file, simply moving it to another partition probably won't fix 'Out of
> Memory' errors.  It should help *performance*, and it will make it much
> easier to defragment C:, so it's worth doing -- it just might not fix your
> problem.
>
> David G
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