Re: Virtual memory problem? - PF usage grows, not freed when apps

Gregg

Do you use Outlook Express? If yes do you have the option to
"Read all messages in Plain Text" selected -Tool, Options, Read.

These Knowledge Base Articles appertain to memory leaks in
Windows XP (we are assuming that is the problem ).

Computer Speed and Performance May Decrease
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310419

MFC applications leak GDI objects on computers that are running
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319740

Intermittent Program Unresponsiveness Occurs When You Use
Performance Monitoring
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330259

I have reservations that the solutions offered may deal with the symptoms
and not resolve the problem.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"FL Guy" <FLGuy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Gerry Cornell" wrote:
>
>> ...
>> I am not aware that there is a downside in terms of system performance
>> with
>> a large maximum. ... In practice I wonder how
>> significant the impact on performance is? Read / write speeds to memory
>> and to disk and CPU speed are much more significant.
>
> Presuming that you're referring to the impact of resizing one the maximum
> is
> reached, on my system at least, the resulting behavior was NOT pretty.
> Windows pretty much hung for some period of time.
>
> By the way, I may have spoken to soon regarding the problem being entirely
> fixed. It's much better, however after running for 3 days without
> rebooting,
> pagefile usage was 650 MB AFTER closing all apps except TM.
>
> Can you (or anyone) tell me whether this is normal for Windows (XP) - that
> the PF usage isn't fully released after all apps are closed?
>
> thanks,
> Gregg


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