 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Windows Forum / Windows 95 / January 2004Win95/98/ME - Information, tips & techniques - We're still here for Win95/98 users!
In the spirit of exchanging information, tips, and techniques regarding Microsoft products: Windows 4 Support Center - http://aumha.org/win4/ Supporting Windows Desktop Systems: Windows 95, 98 & Millennium and Leading Applications Software (See also the Windows 5 Support Center http://aumha.org/win5/ supporting Windows 200 & XP.) Many newsgroup participants have found this site useful in resolving a variety of Windows issues. Among other things, it contains my most common newsgroup answers. Support & Discussion Forums: http://forum.aumha.org/ Registry patches: http://aumha.org/regfiles.htm My favorite freeware: http://aumha.org/freeware.htm Learn HTML coding: http://aumha.org/html/ What's Hot? (the most-visited pages on the site) http://aumha.org/hot.htm A large collection of MSKB articles addressing common Windows error messages: http://aumha.org/win4/kberrmsg.htm Popular Windows support articles and FAQs include: Computer Health: http://aumha.org/a/health.htm The Parasite Fight! (Protect against scumware) http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm Windows Shutdown & Restart Troubleshooting: http://aumha.org/win4/a/shutdown.htm Win 98/ME Memory Management: http://aumha.org/a/memmgmt.htm System Resources FAQ: http://aumha.org/win4/a/resource.htm Troubleshooting Windows - Zero in on the Problem!: http://aumha.org/a/tshoot.htm Windows PowerToys FAQ http://aumha.org/win4/a/powertoy.htm Control Startup Program Loading: http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm Windows Longhorn - Select Articles http://aumha.org/win5/a/longhorn.htm Ad-free. Spyware-free. In fact, it's all free. <g> (Cookies are served only on the forums.) -- Jim Eshelman MS-MVP, Windows Windows Support Center: http://aumha.org Jim, what about some inaccuracies in http://aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.htm? ????? ????? (Igor Leiko) ipigl@redline.ru > In the spirit of exchanging information, tips, and techniques regarding > Microsoft products: [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > Jim Eshelman MS-MVP, Windows > Windows Support Center: http://aumha.org Have you pointed them out to Jim via the feedback links on the site??  SignatureNoel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Season's Greetings to one and all! Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's > Jim, > what about some inaccuracies in http://aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.htm? [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > > Jim Eshelman MS-MVP, Windows > > Windows Support Center: http://aumha.org Yes, of course. ????? ????? (Igor Leiko) ipigl@redline.ru > Have you pointed them out to Jim via the feedback links on the site?? > [quoted text clipped - 60 lines] > > > Jim Eshelman MS-MVP, Windows > > > Windows Support Center: http://aumha.org > Yes, of course. Igor sent me an article that I never completely finished (it was a translation a little tough sledding, but mostly understandable). He has some different views that I don't believe are substantiated by the article. SignatureJim Eshelman > Igor sent me an article that I never completely finished (it was a > translation a little tough sledding, but mostly understandable). He > has some different views that I don't believe are substantiated by > the article. I should add that he also pointed out a couple of places where I could phrase things better. I have those annotated in the copy of the article at the office where I hoped I'd eventually finish reading it, and hadn't finished that yet. I think there might have been at least some language issue -- some of these were issues where, at worst, I could phrase things a little better and then he and I would be in exact agreement. In other places, though, he holds technical positions quite opposed to everything in my knowledge and experience, so we would continue to disagree. SignatureJim Eshelman, MS-MVP Windows Windows Support Center: http://aumha.org/ Fighting Parasites: http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm Computer Health: http://aumha.org/a/health.htm Troubleshooting: http://aumha.org/a/tshoot.htm Jim, not only article. I agree that machine translation could be hard to understand. But I sent another letter with several notes. Did you received it? For example: --- "Win95 had a bug that kept VCache from releasing RAM when it was needed. VCache would just keep growing sometimes, and the amount of available RAM would diminish accordingly, forcing more swap file activity (using the hard drive as a substitute for RAM). This is the famous "memory leak" of Win95. " The bug in Vcache or memory leak? There are a big difference. And where do you get information about such bug in Win95? I actively used Win95 in 1995-97 and never saw such vcache behavior. Do you know any way to reproduce this bug? --- May be we can discuss my conmments here or by mail with some others MVP? ????? ????? (Igor Leiko) ipigl@redline.ru > > Yes, of course. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > -- > Jim Eshelman > Jim, not only article. > I agree that machine translation could be hard to understand. > But I sent another letter with several notes. Did you received it? > For example: Yes. It had been a while -- I was working nights and had it printed out to go through as time allowed, bit by bit. > "Win95 had a bug that kept VCache from releasing RAM when it was > needed. VCache would just keep growing sometimes, and the amount of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > The bug in Vcache or memory leak? There are a big difference. No difference at all. That's the only serious "memory leak" that Windows ever had. The specific leak was that VCache would suck up RAM and not release it. What other serious memory leak has there ever been? > And where do you get information about such bug in Win95? I actively > used Win95 in 1995-97 and never saw such vcache behavior. Do you know > any way to reproduce this bug? I no longer have the info. It was well documented and very well known in 1995-97 era and, by now, I've long ago let go of any of the posts, links, etc. on it. I probably could reproduce the system if I again were to install Win95 on hardware typical of the day, say with 12-24 MB of RAM etc. on a 486. I have no idea how it behaves under later hardware or much greater amounts of RAM. This, btw, was the *specific* reason that limiting VCache maximum was usually considered essential in Win95's day. In an ear when almost nobody had 32 MB of RAM (and most had 16-24 at most), VCache could quite quickly such up 20-21 MB and never let it go. It was common in those days to recommend limiting it to, say, 8 MB max because of this. That would still leave you another 8 MB (minimum necessary to run Win95) on a 16 MB system. If I were to try to track that down, I would look for articles etc. on that exact topic and probably dig up some stuff still around. SignatureJim Eshelman, MS-MVP Windows Windows Support Center: http://aumha.org/ Fighting Parasites: http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm Computer Health: http://aumha.org/a/health.htm Troubleshooting: http://aumha.org/a/tshoot.htm > Jim, > what about some inaccuracies in http://aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.htm? To my knowledge. there are no inaccuracies in that article. I could, of course, always be wrong... but in years of these items being discussed, I don't think so. SignatureJim Eshelman, MS-MVP Windows Windows Support Center: http://aumha.org/ Fighting Parasites: http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm Computer Health: http://aumha.org/a/health.htm Troubleshooting: http://aumha.org/a/tshoot.htm |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.