06-18-2005, 06:21 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Apps unloading prematurely?
I started to get worried when I noticed my new MPX-220 would not allow me to have more then one app running in memory at a time.
For example, I would run PIE, then run WMP, and if I tried to switch back to PIE, it wasn't in memory and need to be reloaded!
Then I found a post in HowardForums.com that shed some light on this issue...
There is a registry location:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\LoMem
With a key name of: ProgramMem
I am thinking that this setting is a "Trigger" percentage of how much memory usage is allowed before the OS starts to close down apps to free more memory up.
When I checked this setting of my out-of-the box mpx-220, it was set to "18"!, which my guess would mean that as soon as my memory usage went above 18% (which any app would probably use that much when it loads), the OS starting killing all/any background apps. So, I set this to 80% and now multiple apps stay running in memory.
It is so ridiculous that the default setting was 18% :?
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