Pagefile question

[Guest]

I downloaded the pagefile usage utility that had been mentioned on this forum.

I noticed that my current pagefile usage is from 50mb to 75mb when I just
started my machine. I have 1gb of physical RAM with plenty of available
memory.

Does anyone know why the pagefile is being used at all when I have so much
free memory?

By the way the utility is great because my Task manager show PF usage of
283mb when in actual it is around 75mb.

Thanks

 

[Colin Cogle]

I downloaded the pagefile usage utility that had been mentioned on this forum.

I noticed that my current pagefile usage is from 50mb to 75mb when I just
started my machine. I have 1gb of physical RAM with plenty of available
memory.

Does anyone know why the pagefile is being used at all when I have so much
free memory?

By the way the utility is great because my Task manager show PF usage of
283mb when in actual it is around 75mb.

Thanks

With a gigabyte of RAM, I'd just outright disable the page file. If you
don't want to, then disable it, defrag your drive and then re-enable it
at a constant size for maximum performance. Try to move it to a
different drive on a different IDE channel if possible.

There's a Windows setting called something like "conservative page file
usage" or similar. It tells Windows not to page its kernel and not to
use the pagefile until physical RAM is full. There are lots of tweaking
programs out there to do this easily (such as XP Smoker or X-Setup
<http://www.x-setup.com>?). If you don't want to install a program for
one setting, hopefully someone knows the Registry setting for that?

 

[Guest]

Hey thanks,
I used x-setup and I have the pagefile down to 5mb instead of 50mb when I
boot up. Do you know what the 5mb is for?

Thanks again.

 

[Mike]

Look here.. http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php