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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Wish list item
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:30:37 -0700
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On or about 06/08/04 10:05 a carrier pigeon from Peter R Thompson delivered:
> am using XP.
>With TMG running (with no other programs) I am using about 550MB of memory.
>If I run a complex filter or report I have used over 1GB.

How much of that is occupied by the OS file cache? Windows has
/always/ tried to fill "unused" memory with pre-fetched file contents, only
releasing the cache as applications require memory for code.

I don't know if XP allows one to set up the equivalent of the
"[vcache]" entries that W9x honored. I have the cache limited to about
16MB. When I added the [vcache] parameters, my "cold boot" free memory
/doubled/ (at the time, I had 128MB on the machine, and after a boot only
32MB was free -- add vcache limits and the machine showed 64MB free. I now
have 256MB, and a cold boot shows 140MB free).

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