GEVan said:
i have an Intel 4 3.2 GHz, 250MB cache, and 2 GB of RAM. Page File is set to
'suggested' size of ~ 3 GB.
Question: Would purchasing a memory manager be worth my time and money?
Seems like just another program intecepting data traffic, which seems it
would slow down overall performance. But they claim to speed up the PC
performance.
What's the real story?
This argument has been going on for at least 3 years that I know of
(when I got my first laptop with 2GB off RAM).
I have read some very good papers on the subject. Most of the
authors seem to think that memory managers are basically snake-oil.
About a month ago a similar thread started, and I basically have
decided that for MY purposes and the way I use my laptop (YMMV), I
have found 2 memory managers that give 'real' world performance
increases. To be honest though, I don't always run them since each
has a quirk that gets in the way of a couple of my resident utilities.
Basically I run my HP Pavilion dv8000z (2GB RAM) with the pagefile
turned completely off. I have one program (PhotoShop) that won't run
without a pagefile. When I have to run Photoshop I turn the pagefile
on. When I am done I turn it back off. To be honest, I don't even
know if newer versions of Photoshop require a pagefile. I am still
using v6.0 (I don't use it often enough to buy and upgrade).
I think you should do like I did, do some 'real' world testing based
on your needs. What makes me more productive the next person may
find to be nothing more than an annoyance.
Ciao . . . C.Joseph
"A promise is nothing more than an attempt,
to respond to an unreasonable request."