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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