Curious
This is a discussion about Curious in the Windows Hardware category; A few weeks ago I gave beta 1 a nice whirl and was, for the most part, VERY impressed. I was running a Celeron 333 overclocked to 500 at the time and my box had (still has in fact) 256 megs of ram. My big complaint at the time was the larger amount of ram the OS used over win2k.
A few weeks ago I gave beta 1 a nice whirl and was, for the most part, VERY impressed. I was running a Celeron 333 overclocked to 500 at the time and my box had (still has in fact) 256 megs of ram. My big complaint at the time was the larger amount of ram the OS used over win2k. Between 90 and 98 megs of ram was in use after each reboot before ever starting a single program. After a couple of weeks I dumped it and reinstalled win2k and life went on, waiting (as I am now) for Beta 2.
For Xmas I recieved a nice new Celeron 566 that I immeadiatly overclocked to a stable 850 mhz AND recieved a new Voodoo4500 AGP vid card. Out of pure curiosity I reinstalled Beta 1. I expected the OS to respond faster, which it has. But what puzzled me is that there is LESS ram being used after booting up with this particular configuration than their was with my slower CPU and PCI vid card. Now I see 84 to 86 megs of ram being used when I boot up...any ideas on whats different? Does use of APG slot for video vs PCI make that much difference???
For Xmas I recieved a nice new Celeron 566 that I immeadiatly overclocked to a stable 850 mhz AND recieved a new Voodoo4500 AGP vid card. Out of pure curiosity I reinstalled Beta 1. I expected the OS to respond faster, which it has. But what puzzled me is that there is LESS ram being used after booting up with this particular configuration than their was with my slower CPU and PCI vid card. Now I see 84 to 86 megs of ram being used when I boot up...any ideas on whats different? Does use of APG slot for video vs PCI make that much difference???
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AGP makes a big difference for bus clock speed..
uses too much memory because there is a bug in there that accidently opens up like 15 svchost.exe programs, I've already discussed it with a large amount of people and it's only suppose to have 3 to 5 of those open tops. That's why it's taking up too much RAM...
uses too much memory because there is a bug in there that accidently opens up like 15 svchost.exe programs, I've already discussed it with a large amount of people and it's only suppose to have 3 to 5 of those open tops. That's why it's taking up too much RAM...
