[Simh] Win98SE memory management problem

[Bob Supnik]

Villy,

You have <too> much memory.  See

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=333688

There's a workaround given.

On the other hand, nothing can work around 98's numerous security 
holes and flaws.  You should upgrade.

/Bob Supnik




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>    1. memory requirements (Villy Madsen)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:25:32 -0600
>From: Villy Madsen <Villy.Madsen at shaw.ca>
>Subject: [Simh] memory requirements
>To: "simh at trailing-edge.com" <simh at trailing-edge.com>
>Message-ID: <01C65FE8.6FCA0600.Villy.Madsen at shaw.ca>
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>Greetings
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>I am sure that my question is answered somewhere - but I haven't had 
>much luck finding it..
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>When I try
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>set cpu 256m
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>I get a memory exhausted message.
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>running Win98/SE with 1GB real and 2GB to 4 GB virtual...(1.5 ghz pentium 3)
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>nothing else running except the usual background garbage and the 
>terminal emulators...
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>How much Windows virtual is needed to support a 256M cpu ??  (of 
>course - it's probably better to let VMS swap than windows <G>)
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>by the way,  running vupometer on this configuration gives me a 5.7
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>Villy
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>Villy Madsen
>www.members.shaw.ca/villy.madsen
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