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| Thread ID: 39218 | 2003-10-30 11:10:00 | Virtual Memory - How Much Do You Need | chiefnz (545) | Press F1 |
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| 187908 | 2003-10-31 10:51:00 | I agree.. and when I next actually use XP I would do that.. I had a lot of swap used when there was around 400MB RAM sitting there doing stuff all. ive got a 250MB SWAP partition in Linux which has NEVER been used since I started with Linux at the start of the year! It does seem like a good idea to me though, using your HDD instead of RAM.. RAM can be dodgy after all.... and who cares about access times, having it hundreds of times slower matters little when youve got a fast enough PC...! Or not.... :p |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 187909 | 2003-11-01 23:16:00 | I use cacheman and it tells me that of my 400 meg virtual memory I have used 133 of it just browsing and downloading when burning a cdr it went up as far as 250 so unless you do really insive graphics or video work you can adjust it to suit I am using 98SE not sure about XP's requirements certain programs do need it so you should reserve at least 300 megs on your HDD for it dependent on what you do on your PC of course | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 187910 | 2003-11-02 00:44:00 | "... ram can be dodgy ..." :O There's a rule I learned a very long time ago: "If you can measure the error rate, it's too high". That was in the days when computers were expected to work, and an OS crashing was an exceptional event. ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 187911 | 2003-11-02 01:01:00 | i've got 512MB of RAM and run with a 256MB static pagefile. although my pc runs just fine with NO pagefile, except that every now and then a bubble pops up saying windows pagefile is too small (or something to that meaning) FYI. in task manager (WINXP- prob same for 2K, i forget) you can enable a column under "processes" tab to see the virtual memory use of each program. ed. |
nadius (3249) | ||
| 187912 | 2003-11-02 10:51:00 | Yep, its in NT, 2K, XP, .NET Server... Ctrl + Shift + Esc |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 187913 | 2003-11-02 22:09:00 | Does anyone know of a free Ram disk/drive program other than those based on the 32MB sized ramdisk.exe that can be downloaded from MS? | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 187914 | 2003-11-02 22:35:00 | With 1GB or over I have no swapfile, (well 2MB just to keep Photoshop from complaining about swapfile) but apart from that I don't think I've gone over 800MB before, it's possible I have. Performance is better, as your hard drive is not being used as much. I'm not sure what you'd be running but I've got about 20 progs in my taskbar at the moment, and that's with no swapfile. So I guess noswapfie is suitable. |
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