I have written about this myself in the past and as a new user was very
surprised to "lose" many hours work from time to time because I had to kill
the process to regain control of my machine. One of the things I noticed
was that while you typically may not "need" a lot of memory, when it gets in
this mode and exceeds the physical ram, the delay becomes insurmountable
because of the disk thrashing that the swapping algorithms cause. I watched
it under Win2000 continue to allocate increments of memory until paging
began. So I maxed out the memory to 786MB of ram so that it has a better
chance to finish whatever before paging. I had 192 MB before but memory is
so cheap now, why not? Seems to help as I can now leave it alone awhile and
it comes back to life.
regards,
Tim Hutcheson
ICQ #32491889
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