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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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| 187898 | 2003-10-30 11:10:00 | Hi guys just a general question. I have 1GB of DDR 400 RAM on my machine running Win2K SP4. My question is... can I now reduce the size of my virtual memory (which is currently set to 768MB) to like say 512MB. Would it affect performance if I made it smaller. I mean, surely with 1GB of RAM you wouldn't need a huge swap file would you, or am I wrong? Does anyone have any recommendations? Cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 187899 | 2003-10-30 11:20:00 | "Would it affect performance if I made it smaller?" that depends on what appz you are running on the system. 768Mb sound a bit big but if you have the disk space then why not....... |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 187900 | 2003-10-30 11:44:00 | Im had to same when I had WinXP... Always used 112MB of that swap file though :-( Dunno what the rest way for? Personally, I reakon you could get away with making it one or two megs... I'd set it to ten megs and see if it'll use RAM more... If it doesnt like it, change it back! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 187901 | 2003-10-30 12:14:00 | Put the pagefile onto a ramdrive :) Search the forum for osme ideas on that. I'd make it about 100-200mb. That will leave you with 800mb ram for other stuff. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 187902 | 2003-10-30 17:54:00 | It does depend on the apps, and the way you have configured windows itself. Why don't you just set the minimum virtual page size and leave the max to do what it wants? I run 512MB of ram and at the moment the page file inuse is 188MB however i also have 300MB of RAM still avaliable. So as you can see it doesn't matter how much ram you have, your still gonna get PF usage. You can reduce this however by using settings suchas as conservativeswapfileuseage=1 and other cache settings. search PF1 for some more info. I might even have said something about it in a FAQ i wrote!! so check them out too |
roofus (483) | ||
| 187903 | 2003-10-30 19:58:00 | you have heaps of ram I am on 98SE with 512 megs of sd133 ram and my swap file is set to 400 min aND MAX which prevents your virtual memory settings getting fragmented and theoretically slowing down your HDD it works fine for me , great deal dependsd on what you do on your PC | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 187904 | 2003-10-31 01:05:00 | It should be remembered that win98 and win2k/XP are completely different as regards swapfile/pagefile useage. You can force the win98 swap file to be very small/zero if you have enough ram but you cant in 2k/XP. What you have would be about right for the pagefile size Chief. There's lots of refences to pagefile yielded by a quick search, here's (www.winnetmag.com) an informative one. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 187905 | 2003-10-31 01:11:00 | Meh....ive run with the swap file off complety when using a gig of ram,even tried it for awhile with 512mb of ram. | metla (154) | ||
| 187906 | 2003-10-31 01:16:00 | So XP is designed to deliberately slow you down by using a pagefile, even if there is enough real memory for all applications? Wow. :O My respect for MS's competence is unchanged. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 187907 | 2003-10-31 03:55:00 | That's very true Graham :D When I first played with XP, and having 512MB the first thing I did was to get rid of the pagefile, same as win98. Then XP tries to start putting it back again when running things like defrag, not only tries to, it does so. Then I read these various articles that say you have to have a reasonable size pagefile for XP and apps to work properly, but I havent really, really found out why. The suggestion to put the pagefile in a ram drive sounds very good to me. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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