Shared memory is almost always main memory that is being dedicated to the
video subsystem.  When you subtract the shared from the total, you should
have at least 256Mb for a smoothly functioning Windows XP system.

Mike.

"Sunbeam" <ray@mooz.net> wrote in message
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Hope this is not OT but it is sort of seti related.
I have a small network of 4pcs running seti classic CLI version 24/7. This
network does not have internet access so I use setigate to cache &
distribute WUs. These are transferred by zip disk every 2 days.
The OS are 3 x win98se and 1 x winXP and it has been running perfectly for
a year or more.
I recently noticed that on the xp machine processing times have almost
doubled and there is constant network activity according to the indicators
on the switch. Can't find any probs on the XP machine but on reboot it

says

at the beginning (post test?) xxxx amount of memory and xxxx amount of
shared memory. I've never seen this before and don't know what it means

but

I am presuming that it is the cause of the extended processing times and
the constant network activity.
I'm not very familiar with XP.
Anyone help please.
Many thanks

Sunbeam