Peter Popov wrote in message <37a020bf.17317772@204.213.191.228>...
>There's a $20 shareware proggie for windoze called MemTurbo. A 30-day
>trial is available at TUCOWS. It does memory defrags & recovery as
>well as controls the min and max cache size. So far I haven't seen any
>problems with the trial version, but keep in mind:
>
>a) The first time I ran the program it was able to free up 78 of the
>96 MB physical RAM I have (by paging dlls and such to the hdd) when no
>programs were running. Now, a typical value is 12-16 MB. Why? I don't
>know. Actually, the system behaves better when having 16 MB of free
>physical RAM than when having 75 (cause it still needs those dlls and
>has to reload them on demand)
>
>b) The cache tuning options are not available in the trial version, so
>I can't report on that


I use a postcardware program called "Cacheman" to adjust the disk cache size
on my computer.  I have it set up so that no more than 20 MB is used for the
disk cache.

Mark

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