Ram eater?

[kaitykaity]

Windoze 98SE, 256MB Ram, Pentium III

Msconfig is set to selective startup, so
all I have running in the background is:

Explorer
Rnaapp
Wmtray
Realplay
Systray

Programs I was using were IE, MsWorks,
and a transcription program called eScribe.

With 8% of system resources free, had to
shut 'er down.

How else would I find the RAM eater?

Thanks.

[KitchenWitch]

1. I do not know how you would find out what the resource hog is

but I use Memturbo to defrag my RAM. http://www.memturbo.com/

[kaitykaity]

2. Have a 10GB hard drive, using 1.4GB.

Did not know the RAM could be or needed to be
defragged.

Hm. Will try it. Thx.

[kaitykaity]

3. Nice idea in theory. Didn't work though.

Ran it at 51%, it stayed at 51%. The meter
is nice though. I see like a 50mb spike
in RAM usage that I can't figure out where
it's coming from.

:grr:

[Berserker]

4. Do you have

Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware installed on your computer? If not click security tools at the bottom of my post and run both programs. Does your hard drive run while your computer is idle? Some P2P programs will also use your hard drive.

[Berserker]

5. Also

I don't see a Firewall or a Anti-Virus on your list.

[alfredo]

6. i would look for spyware or some other nasty thang on your

hard drive.

Adding a bit more RAM wouldn't hurt you. First look for spyware, then when you can afford it, get more RAM.

[charlie]

7. Try not loading RealPlayer at startup

It's a hog.

Also, you might want to check if it's really RealPlayer. There's a parasite called RapidBlaster that morphs itself to escape detection, renaming itself with common program names, realplay.exe among them.

http://www.wilderssecurity.net/specialinfo/rapidblaster.html

Another thing -- is your swap file set to a large enough size?

[kaitykaity]

8. All this shit started when I downloaded Real 10 because

I wanted to listen to Howard Dean's speech at the
DNC and the damn CSPAN site defaults to RealPlayer
for their archives.

When things started blowing up I got rid of it
and redownloaded Real7. I'm pretty sure it's the
real thing, but I'm not sure what else got schmushed.

[LiberalUprising]

9. Try Real Alternative

It plays all video files I've come across so far with no looking for codecs, no spyware or adware and best of all it's a free download!

Release Notes:
Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer or RealOne Player from Real Networks. Supported are: RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx .smi .smil), RealText (.rt) and ReadPix (.rp). It also supports RealMedia content that is embedded in webpages. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want.
It is highly recommended to uninstall all existing Real related software, like RealPlayer or RealOne Player, before installing. This way your system stays clean and potential problems will be avoided.



Link below
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

[kaitykaity]

10. I'm sold.

I'll try anything at this point. It doesn't specify
a platform so I'm assuming 98 supports it.

I'm even tempted to squish the file swap file, the 386
one. This is nuts.

[LiberalUprising]

11. Yes it supports win 98

I ran it on that before I upgraded to 2000, you will have to save video file to disc in order to use it though.

I don't think you can save the CSPAN videos to your computer.

If something requires real player to watch and I can't download it, I don't watch it or look for another source.

I refuse to put real player on my machine again.

[kaitykaity]

12. No, you can't. Right click as a javascript.

I looked for that DNC speech elsewhere but
couldn't find it.

Oh well. I'll have to look some more.

Yeah, after what Real10 did to my machine
I'm done with anything to do with RealPlayer
ever.

[charlie]

13. Use this URL for Dean's speech

Swipe it with your mouse and copy it:

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/c04/c04_022103dnc.rm

Click File --> Open File in Media Player Classic and paste it in. Click Okay.

If you want to watch the current programming on CSPAN 1, 2, or 3, use these (Same thing, don't left-click. Right-click, copy and paste):

http://play.rbn.com/?url=cspan/g2cspan/live/cspan1-g2.rm&proto=rtsp
http://play.rbn.com/?url=cspan/g2cspan/live/cspan2-g2.rm&proto=rtsp
http://play.rbn.com/?url=cspan/g2cspan/live/cspan3-g2.rm&proto=rtsp

[kaitykaity]

14. Thank you.

:yourock: