1/11 I just installed 256megs of memory on my Dell desktop, bringing
it up to a total of 384 megs. Everything seems fine, except one
little thing. When I go to the start menu and click "New Office
Document" and then select Blank Document, for example, it doesn't
do anything...until I do something like just opening up a folder,
or another program, or pretty much anything that requires double-
clicking. So the new document does pop up, but only after I open
something else. I really don't remember if it did this before, but
could this be related to the new memory (DIMM, by the way). And
it's Win98. Thanks.
\_ have you popped the memory out and verified the behavior?
\_ You know about windoze wasting heap trying to cache too much,
right? Put [vcache]\nMaxFileCache=65536 or something
reasonable in system.ini. Not that this is your problem.
As for the actual problem, hmm. Maybe it's that you're
running windoze, MS office, or the combination of both. hehe
\_ It's not smart enough to shrink the cache whe heap space is
\_ It's not smart enough to shrink the cache when heap space is
\_ No, that's not the problem. As I understand it, it pre-
allocates heap for handling the file cache. If you have
more than 512MB of RAM, the amount of heap needed for
maintaining that much vcache is almost 128k, which is
the fixed amount of heap windoze 95/98/ME has. When
that happens, you get a out-of-memory error even though
you have more memory than ever. It does not affect W2K/NT.
running short? Which versions of Windoze have this problem?
\_ Well, kind of.... As I understand it, it pre-allocates
heap for handling the file cache. If you have around
512MB of RAM, the amount of heap needed for maintaining
that much vcache is almost 128k, which is the fixed amount
of heap windoze 95/98/ME has. When that happens, you get
a out-of-memory error even though you have more memory
than ever. It does not affect W2K/NT.
\_ If you want to run windows with anything more than 32
or 64 MB of RAM, you should use win2k or NT, only.
\_ dude, you got a dell!
\_ Hmm. I didn't consider that, but then, it's still better
than compaq.
\_ Or as we affectionally call it at work, crapaq |
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