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Location: Waterloo, Ontario
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Peculiarities of Win98?
I remember reading on a website about some peculiarities of Windows98. An interesting one is that the logon dialog is just that--a dialog, so you can simply press "escape" and the dialog will end and you will then enter the system.
Most of the peculiarities, however, were about the memory management system of Windows98. It needs a minimum of 64MB of RAM (despite what the spec says) but doesn't really use more than 64MB of RAM. I've also heard (from a different source) that you can get better performance out of Windows98 if you have more than 64 MB of RAM by using the excess memory for a RAM disk and putting your swap file there. But perhaps this is the same as setting the ConservativeSwapfileUsage variable on in the system.ini file. For the life of me, I can't find the site where I learned of all this stuff. Can anyone confirm or deny these allegations? Thanks! |
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Junkie
Location: New York
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I have 512MB on my system and Win98 seems to use all of it. I use photoshop and have had a number of images open at 11MB each and would have expected heavy thrashing if the system was only using 64MB.
Win98 does have problems with systems > 512MB memory. One of the caches wasn't designed to deal with systems with that much memory. There is a patch to fix it, but I don't remember where. I would expect that putting your swap file into a ram disk would hurt, not help, since the idea of a swap file is to move contents out of memory when not needed so something needed can be brought in. |
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