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Increase free memory on win98 I have only 32mb ram! ;P Rate Topic: -----

#21 User is offline   oscardog 

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Posted 26 October 2006 - 04:42 PM

My system had 18 of 32ram free before.. but after apply these settings and reboot I have 22 of 32 ram free now!!!!
Thats because you have lowered your maxfilecache by 4 meg
With regard to
About the Vcache currently Im using:
MinFileCache = 2048
MaxFileCache = 8192 <-- this will have been lowered by cachebooster

try also minfilecache at zero so windows can adjust itself if memory becomes too low
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Lowering the values of namecache, pathcache will also free more memory,
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ FS Templates\ Server]
NameCache = a9 0a 00 00 (Will store 2729 filenames)
PathCache = 40 00 00 00 (Will store 64 folders)


also thanks for the tip.. I checked and seems that 98lite add that value by default
Try altering these values, it was just an example, cachebooster will alter these values for you as well


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Posted 26 October 2006 - 07:38 PM

It's better to make the Vcache small than to disable it.

6 MB for max Vcache, MaxFileCache=6144 would be fine.

This post has been edited by RJARRRPCGP: 26 October 2006 - 07:39 PM


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Posted 27 October 2006 - 12:54 AM

32Mb is more than adequate for 98se; for quite some time, I used a Pentium 233MMX machine with that amount of RAM, and only slightly modified 98se install. I even had wallpaper and the standard 98se shell. Resources free upon bootup was somewhere around 97-98%. I remember opening 20+ MP3s at once with ActiveMovie and playing them all at the same time - the result didn't sound good, but the system showed no noticeable decrease in performance and I remember editing a large bitmap image at the same time.

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