Low Windows 98 Resource with IP Office

[rpb1]

I have 768 MB of RAM on my PC, yet since installation of IP Office and the TAPI drivers I am continuously running low on resources.

Anyone any suggestions?

 

[jonnyGURU]

Wait a minute... You have 768MB of RAM in a Windows 98 box?

Did you change the MaxFileCache size in your VCache entry in the WIN.INI to 524,288?

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[IPAlot]

Well did you?

Soopa Doopa Intergalactic IP Office installation mechanic and configuration corruptor from way back.

 

[rpb1]

I just kept on adding RAM to try to deal with the low resources problem.

The vcache setting seems to be system.ini, not win.ini

However, changing it to the figure mentioned results in a lot of disc churning.

Any other suggestions?

 

[jonnyGURU]

AAAAARGH!!!!!

Take the RAM BACK OUT!!!!

If you can't succeed in "stabilizing" the system with 512MB or less, putting in MORE RAM in a Windows 9x box is only going to make things worse!

How about this..... Install Windows 2000?


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[Morrack]

Ahhh Johny, thank you for providing our thursday morning entertainment. Is your face really turning red as I envision when I read your post? *grin*

(I hope you take this in the light manner it was intended...)



Peter Sherwood

Morrack Consulting

http://www.morrack.com

 

[rpb1]

As we say in England "Calm down dear, it's only a computer"!

I now understand system resources have little to do with overall RAM size.

My problem with Vcache was that I also set a large minfilecache size and a chunk size. Having reduced the former to 65536 and deleted the latter the system seems much happier.