What is "Locked Memory"

[OlderThanDirt]

I have a Win98 system with 128MB RAM.
Running System Monitor shows a steady 73MB of "Locked Memory"
I don't know what "locked memory" is, or if 73/128MB is "too much"

Any ideas?

 

[Nothinman]

I havn't used Win98 for a very very long time and when I did I didn't study it, so I may be wrong.

But normally "locked memory" is memory that can't be paged to disk (to the swap file) if you start to get low on physical memory, 73M seems like a lot to me but I'm used to Linux's memory managment. Unless you can find out what has it locked, you can't really tell if it's too much.

 

[OlderThanDirt]

Thanks!
I've had a problem with the machine going into a coma for seconds to minutes, and I was using System Monitor to see if I could find out what was going on (or not going on).
This large amount of Locked memory was the only suspicious thing I've found so far.