Re: Memory usage

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:22:03 UTC, Alex Taylor
<mail.me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:30:06 -0600, Mark Klebanoff
> <maxikins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Actually, the system remains responsive throughout. The problem is
> > that it won't let you start any programs or open any commandline
> > windows, giving the generic screen that says something's wrong, such
> > as insufficient memory. You can then open up the properties screen.
> > In fact, it's the same message it gives you when it can't find the
> > program file you've double clicked on.
> >
> > I'm using US English eCS 1.2. I've been using it for around 1 1/2
> > years, and have not had a problem until the past few weeks.
>
> I had a problem exactly like this on my new PC (it appeared after
> installing a new driver which allocated a fair-sized chuck of shared
> memory).
>
> The problem turned out to be the system running out of space in the shared
> memory region. The cause? Too large a VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT setting,
> combined with the hardware/software I was using.
>
> I suggest you remove (or REM) the line VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT= from your
> CONFIG.SYS file, reboot, and see if the problem goes away.
>

Knock on wood, I've invoked dllbase=off, and so far I've gone nearly a
day without running out of memory. I'm hoping not do have to drop
virtualaddresslimit, which I have at 2048
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