Cannot set pagefile size

[Vladimir Votiakov]

I have 1GB of memory and I cannot set pagefile size to 1048 MB.
I am using "Custom size" with Initial size = 1048, Maximum size 1048.
(Yes, I've clicked on <Set> button before reboot).

Windows ignores my settings and creates 1534 MB page file (Recommended
size).

What is wrong?

Vladimir

 

[Don MI]

I have 1GB of memory and I cannot set pagefile size to 1048 MB.
I am using "Custom size" with Initial size = 1048, Maximum size 1048.
(Yes, I've clicked on <Set> button before reboot).

Windows ignores my settings and creates 1534 MB page file (Recommended
size).

What is wrong?

Vladimir

Suggest that you choose to let Windows XP manage the page file size on your
hard drive. You may want to consider moving your page file to a second hard
drive if you have one.

Don

 

[yksudha]

Suggest that you choose to let Windows XP manage the page file
size on your
hard drive. You may want to consider moving your page file to
a second hard
drive if you have one.

Don

WIndows Xp recommends - 1.5 times the size of your memory.
just check the currently allocated size of your page file.


Regards
Sudhakar

 

[Don MI]

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WIndows Xp recommends - 1.5 times the size of your memory.
just check the currently allocated size of your page file.


Regards
Sudhakar

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Yes, but the OP is trying to set Virtual Memory size manually vice allowing
Windows XP to manage the size.

Don

 

[Ken Blake]

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I have 1GB of memory and I cannot set pagefile size to 1048 MB.
I am using "Custom size" with Initial size = 1048, Maximum size
1048.
(Yes, I've clicked on <Set> button before reboot).

Windows ignores my settings and creates 1534 MB page file
(Recommended size).

What is wrong?

I'm not sure what's wrong, but with as much as 1GB, most people
should almost never need as much as 1048MB of page file. I would
set the initial size to something around 200MB, and leave the
maximum large, just in case.

 

[Rock]

I have 1GB of memory and I cannot set pagefile size to 1048 MB.
I am using "Custom size" with Initial size = 1048, Maximum size 1048.
(Yes, I've clicked on <Set> button before reboot).

Windows ignores my settings and creates 1534 MB page file (Recommended
size).

What is wrong?

Vladimir

Suggest you read Alex Nichol's article on Virtual Memory and setting the
page file size. XP's defaults are not optimum, and setting the min and
max size the same is a throw back from older OS's - also not optimum for XP:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

 

[Alex Nichol]

WIndows Xp recommends - 1.5 times the size of your memory.
just check the currently allocated size of your page file.

Which is absurd on a 1GB machine - it is just tying up disk space to no
purpose at all. You need a modest initial size - say 100 MB - because
the system likes to write a few MB to the file regardless, and should
have a large Max size available for contingencies and other reasons -
see my page www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have 1GB of memory and I cannot set pagefile size to 1048 MB.
I am using "Custom size" with Initial size = 1048, Maximum size 1048.
(Yes, I've clicked on <Set> button before reboot).

Windows ignores my settings and creates 1534 MB page file (Recommended
size).

This sounds to me as if you are trying to put it on a different drive,
without leaving a notional size file on C: (say initial 2 max 50).

Or possibly that you have run into a problem someone else had a couple
of days ago, when he had tried putting the file on a dynamic disk - it
appears that the VM system does not like that

Setting the initial size to 1024 is going to be wasteful of disk space
unless you have evidence that there is actual use of the file taking
place. Start off with 100 MB, leave max high, and see if the file
actually gets any bigger