Subj : Re: Learned something new
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Ed Vance
Date : Fri Jul 26 2024 21:31:44


> BARRY MARTIN wrote:

> Lost track of the message, but anyway.... by itself, 32bit XP with 
> default drivers uses 386mb RAM (I've seen this number over and over) or 
> if it's dual-booted with ReactOS, for some reason only uses 80mb RAM. 
> Either way, it's not the major problem.

> Browsers are the biggest hogs, I've seen Chrome suck up 40GB (yes,
> gigabytes) of RAM! Supermium, despite being based on the same code, is 
> not as greedy, but still uses about 700mb when it's just admiring its 
> navel, plus about 2GB per page open.

> How on earth did you have 28 to 32 programs running -- doing what? I 
> have 4 or 5 apps that are open all the time, but otherwise... are you 
> sure you're not counting multiple windows for a single program? You 
> might want to set them  to "group when taskbar is full".

> Best thing to check is Task Manager, it'll give you a lot of 
> information. I leave it running in the system tray all the time, cuz it
> doesn't eat much (at least on older Windows; on 10/11 it uses way too 
> much RAM).y

> I think it's seeing only the mini-VM (I forget what it's called) 32-bit 
> XP uses to run DOS programs. It's certainly not seeing system RAM.

> Might have run the heaps dry. However, then you normally get a wonky 
> screen where if you drag a window around it looks like this:

> http://doomgold.com/images/linux/snapshot5-smplayer.png

> Incidentally that screenshot was from linux, not immune to this issue.

> Bring back the mammoths, and smallpox, and dinosaurs....

> Hmm. Maybe try smalls.
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Task Manager is usually the first program I run after signing in on the XP box.
TM was already one of the icons cof that 28 bunch, and probably would be near
to the last that would be Closed while I was experiencing problems.
Ed
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