[261] in winnt
Re: Is My Machine Afraid to Commit? (Memory...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darlene H. Fladager)
Mon Nov 16 09:54:13 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:53:56 -0500
To: Bob Kaynor <bkaynor@MIT.EDU>, ntpartners@MIT.EDU
From: "Darlene H. Fladager" <fladager@MIT.EDU>
You might want to check available disk space. NT complains with virtual
memory messages if your hard drive gets too full (less than 50 meg
available), no matter how much VM you've allocated. Norton may be
translating this into a Commit Memory message.
Darlene
At 05:17 PM 11/13/98 -0500, Bob Kaynor wrote:
>Norton Utilities for NT has a "System Doctor" function which allows you to
>track the use of, among other things, something called "Commit Memory".
>Neither the Norton docs nor Microsoft references (e.g. the Resource Kit)
>say much about what this really is, but when it gets low, the System Doctor
>suggests increasing my paging file size (System control panel, Performance
>tab) or closing applications and open windows.
>
>I've been running out of CM a lot lately. My paging file is set to 100MB -
>200 MB (which seems excessive). I currently have 64 MB RAM installed (Dell
>GX1). Even if the Norton alert doesn't mean much, it becomes painfully
>obvious that *something* is going on because performance on this 333MHz PII
>system goes in the toilet. Do I really have to install 128 MB on this
>sucker to keep it happy? Tell me it ain't so!
>
>-RKK
>
