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| Thread ID: 50561 | 2004-10-24 21:34:00 | Warped question for the weekend | dude (6318) | Press F1 |
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| 284296 | 2004-10-25 09:09:00 | Have a read of this for Win XP: aumha.org |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 284297 | 2004-10-25 09:44:00 | It says to use the greater of either 100MB or enough to bring PF + RAM to 500mb. I have 512MB of ram, so according to this article I should set the initial to 100MB? Currently I have 448MB of RAM, 512 actually because the video takes 64. I have 139MB 'available', and 211MB of 'system cache'. PF usage is 264MB. Total kernel memory: 50MB Paged kernel memory: 39MB Unpaged kernel memory: 11MB BTW what is Commit Charge? Currently it is 264M same as my page file, but it is not always. Since I have free RAM, can you move more stuff into physical memory to increase performance? I just want to make the most of my 512MB of RAM. Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 284298 | 2004-10-25 09:44:00 | There is a FAQ (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) on virtual memory - should it be re-written to bring it up to date? Or is it rather irrelevant now with Win XP handling it more efficiently? I will add Terry's link to the FAQ anyway. :-) |
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| 284299 | 2004-10-25 09:45:00 | remember this (www.osnn.net) terry ;-) ;-) ;-) | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 284300 | 2004-10-26 00:01:00 | Er... I dont tweak'e, should I? But then my memory is not that good :8} However that is also a good article. I remember when I first installed XP, and before I had read how virtual memory operates with NT/XP, I tried to do the win98 thing of making the paging file small, and XP soon let me know that it didnt like it :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 284301 | 2004-10-26 00:12:00 | Let's go back to Win98, to complete things a bit. If you have enough ram ( say 256MB or preferably more) then add the following entry under the [386Enh] heading in system.ini: ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 If you want to have 512MB or more ram then add this entry under [Vcache]: MaxFileCache=524288 The first entry forces Win98 to use ram before swap file. The second entry allows use of more than 512MB ram. The result is a very small or zero swap file, and a faster system. This is all well documented as a Google search will soon reveal. |
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