pagefile.sys MkII :-)

[RJK]

....in case the other pagefile.sys thread 21012004 11:59 is now considered
dead...(Richard Urban is still in there!).

the "real" question I was asking was, do you think that my borhter would
have rquired more ram if his swapfile was set to be managed by XP ?

quoting myself......
I just got back from Bournemouth, where I stuck in a 512mb stick of memory
into my bro's PC, (has to pull one of his 128mb's) ....(pc2100 not that
that's relevant......) ...now he's got 640mb.

A couple of months b4 Xmas i think it was, I visited there and installed XP
Pro for him. Shortly afterwards, he was unhappy with XP Pro because Nero,
(he uses Nero a lot), ....Nero would just bomb out and vanish, when he was
"loading up" or "importing" or whatever it's called in the program, a 40gb
approx. *.mp3 file into the Nero wave editor plugin. (He bought the plugin
a long time ago because the one supplied with Nero was "time" or "use"
limited. That was ripoff....but, another story!

Anyway, this afternoon, after plugging in his 512mb pc2100, I checked his
system through and noticed that his pagefile.sys size was NOT managed by
Windows ....forgot what min. was but, max. was 384mb's. THAT MUST HAVE been
the default setting when XP Pro was installed. WHAT A STUPID DEFAULT !! I
enjoyed that, I'm going to shout it again...

WHAT A BLOODY STUPID DEFAULT !!! (I added a swear word that time, and
enjoyed it even more!)

I changed that to "Let Windows manage...etc), and rebooted, then checked his
pagefile.sys size - it had immediately grown to a massive 984mb's !
....from the previous max. 384mb. (Was that because XP Pro had been noting
that his NERO app. really needed a huge swap file but, could'nt increase it
? )

I suspect that he didn't really need more RAM, (though of course his XP Pro
will be much happier with 640mb's of ram), BUT, the point is that,
technically, MS COST ME A STRIP OF RAM !!!!!!!! B******S !

regards, Richard

 

[RJK]

tut..."...it's called in the program, a 40MB approx. *.mp3 file into the
Nero wave..."

regards, Richard

..

 

[Alex Nichol]

...in case the other pagefile.sys thread 21012004 11:59 is now considered
dead...(Richard Urban is still in there!).

the "real" question I was asking was, do you think that my borhter would
have rquired more ram if his swapfile was set to be managed by XP ?

quoting myself......
I just got back from Bournemouth, where I stuck in a 512mb stick of memory
into my bro's PC, (has to pull one of his 128mb's) ....(pc2100 not that
that's relevant......) ...now he's got 640mb.

From that quite possibly not. He had 256 MB which is fairly reasonable.
But with that the default installation has evidently set the max size of
he page file far too low. Or more likely (quiz him hard) he has taken
some of the bad advice around to set Initial and Max to the same size -
and the size suggested was 1.5 times RAM. That is likely to be far too
little to hold all the address space that programs allot themselves -
even if they never use it and there is no corresp[onding RAM needed.

Read up at my page www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

 

[Alex Nichol]

tut..."...it's called in the program, a 40MB approx. *.mp3 file into the
Nero wave..."

That is likely to get expanded to about ten times the size as Nero turns
it into a WAV to burn to the CD. That needs a corresponding amount of
memory around. Virtual memory space should do - effectively then using
the page file as work file, but it would call for something like that
much PF space on a 256 MB machine, where the RAM would be largely in
use. And with other calls on memory, the max size of page file I would
have wanted around would have been at least 600 MB - possibly more.
There is no downside in having the Max set high against such
contingencies