From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_victor.MCESTATE.COM)
Date: Sun Aug 01 1999 - 19:12:22 EDT
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, David Goldman wrote:
> In Windows 9x, the "resources" are limited to 64K per GDI, User and
> System. In Windows 3.1, the same was true. The only reason that there
> are so much more resources available in Win9x then there were in Win
> 3.1 was that M$ changed their calculation between the two versions. In
> Win 3.1, the calculation was based on the idea that 100% available was
> 64K. In Win 9x, the calculation is based on the idea that 100% is the
> amount of the 64K RAM that is unused AFTER the kernel has booted. In
> other words, in Win 3.1, the kernel used resources. In Win 9x, the
> portion of the kernel used to boot the machine does NOT use resources.
> To put it another way, there isn't really a difference in the amount
> of available resources between Win 3.1 and Win 9x, only a difference
> in the way the calculations are done.
Actually, what you say may be true but with 3 different machines
running the same programs during bootup, the results are different. My
Desktop running Win95OSR2.5 manages resources fairly well with the 128
megs of ram since there is still a lot of resources available after
bootup. My 385ED running the Win95 OSR2.5 and Win98 Government Edition
(this is the one that isn't stripped down) has 80 megs of RAM and runs all
the applications even better than my desktop. The 770Z with the Win98
preload is the problem. I have everything exactly identical as the 385ED
since I checked in msconfig and with 128 megs of RAM, resources disappear
fast after bootup. Same thing with 256 megs of ram. There is a known
memory leak problem in Win98 of resource management that Win95 does better
in. I wonder if the Government version has less bugs as well since
atleast that version works. Another thing is that it is known that
Win98's virtual memory management is very buggy so that may be a source of
the resource leak.
Cheers,
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