"Me too!" `8-7, well... I consider this be a fine-tune issue regarding Windows, this ofcourse affects cygwin - and all other software packages that has been installed. I'll let it be unsaid whether this should have been automated by M$ or not... (I _do_ have an opinion... ;-)
After having read what is on this page: > RAMpage => http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/ I can only say; I _DO_ agree. I have been running W98 (and SE) ever since I got my brand new [EMAIL PROTECTED]/128MB RAM (it was top spec. at that time!) - I installed W2K just recently. (Now w 256MB) The first 2-3 years it was turned on, all the time - running the first "distributed.net" projects. At least three times a week I had to restart windows, simply because RAM was all wasted. As I later concluded - it was vcache (i.e. disk buffering) that filled up RAM to the extent that there was NOTHING left for application use - at this point all memory allocations lead to EXTENSIVE swap file use. IMO this behaviour was/is very prominent in W98. I found a remedy though... first running a sibling to RAMpage, then by fiddling a bit with "system.ini" - see below. This little addition to the ini-file has held the machine very much more usable, with just a little more disk-thrashing as side effect. I wouldn't be too surprised if there STILL is something like this left in more recent Windows versions. If there is a this easy remedy for them is beyond my knowledge. So, cgf is right here IMO. HOWTO, FYI: I have kept maxfilecache (KBytes) at 10-20% of installed RAM and chunksize (Bytes) as high as I have considered reasonable. i.e. a) maxfilecache/chunksize should be a fairly high number. (better cahche-ability) b) chunksize shouldn't be _too_ small. (too small -> overhead grows) Please note that I have NOT done any benchmarks here... -- system.ini - addition/change for 256MB RAM -- [vcache] maxfilecache=40960 chunksize=2048 -- /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E --8<-- > "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@cygwin.com on > 08/07/2003 11:40:57 > AM > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire) > > Subject: Re: Win2k and cygwin memory leak > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:32:42AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: > >This may be a Win2000 problem, not a cygwin problem...What service pack > >are you running? > > "May be"? You run a bunch of programs, exit them, and Windows > slowly loses > memory after each exit? > > Hard to see how that's a cygwin problem. > > cgf --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
