Hi,

  I have a couple of observations about memory managment on my system I would
like to get your opinions about.

  I have a file I rendered just now that has 100k objects and according to
Pov's stats used a peak memory of 102 megs. I have 128 megs of ram installed
on my system using two 64 meg 72 pin EDO ram simms in the first bank only.
My system architecture is supposed to be able to access up to a maximum of
128 megs so I have it max'd out.

  I also have a windows 98 managed swap file specified in the control panel.
System resources are 97% free according to several memory reporting utilities.
That leaves over 120 megs of unused free ram memory.

  After rendering the aforementioned scene I checked the size of my HD swap file
and it was nearly 135 megs in size. It's usual size under windows management is
20 megs until a program writes to it.

  What I don't understand is with 128 megs of ram memory on board why would my
swap file ever grow so large when the system memory is sufficient to cover the
use of the programs being run ? I know the speed increase of using ram memory
over swap file memory is significant and would prefer to run in that environment.

Anybody ?

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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