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| 147922 | 2003-05-27 07:37:00 | is there a way to set window 2000 to use up all or nearly all the physical memory from RAM before using page file/virtual memory?? | heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 147923 | 2003-05-27 07:48:00 | Not that I know of there's not. How much RAM do you have? I have 512MB SD-RAM and Ive set Win2K to use only 5 Megs for a Swap file, no performance difference really, as it keeps the swap file at the same size if its in use or not! Hope this helps Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 147924 | 2003-05-27 08:21:00 | This site (www.techspot.com) has an interesting series of articles about memory and the page file and how to go about tweaking things. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 147925 | 2003-05-27 11:00:00 | i've got 512MB too.. so how do you check how much page file the system is using? |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 147926 | 2003-05-27 11:03:00 | Ctrl + **** + Esc Hit the performance tab :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 147927 | 2003-05-27 11:08:00 | No performance decrease is just chance really. As a 32-bit operating system, windows allows each process to access up to 2GB of virtual memory. The swap file is only used when the RAM is insufficient. I would be interested to see what happened if you tried to edit a 1GB image file... my guess is that you will recieve the out of memory error as you only have a total of 517MB available to use. Iain |
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