Memory slowdown

Does this make sense? I have 384mb of pc133 ram. After bootup I usually have around 289mb usable. If I open and close a few programs and surf the net, I can watch the ram disappear in my systray (i'm using memturbo) till it gets to 94mb then the system slows way down as memturbo defrags the memory. I've just started using a memory tool but I never realized that my system slowed down that much! Could I have a bad stick of RAM? My Swapfile is 512mb, is that too small? Neither HD is close to being full.....Seems like one Giant memory leak!!



Chopperdoc

P3-800, Abit BE6-2r2, 384mb mushkin, GF4200-64mb, IBM 10.2 and 15.3 gb HD
Plextor 2410, acer 52x CD.........Win98se

 

What all do you have loading at start up?
Go to start....then run...then type in msconfig
Click ok.....then go to the start up tab.
What all do you have a check mark beside?

Daizy

 

Slowdown

The only startup items are, systray, taskmonitor, navagent, memturbo, load power profile, and scriptblocking. I try to keep the startup items loading to a minimum.......I increased the size of my swapfile to let windows manage it. That didn't make a difference in usage that I noticed, but it did stop a "one time" stutter in Falcon4. Thanks for your help, I'll keep fiddling around and figure it out sooner or later. I'm building another machine and will give this to my son eventually.

Chopperdoc

 

Have you tried working without Memturbo?

Daizy

 

I'm not positive that this will help, but I will sometimes run "walign" when a Win98 box I'm working on seems to be running slowly due to RAM issues. Just a thought.

Jim