Pagefile question

[Chuck Dreier]

I'm running XP HOME on a P4 3.2 GHz with HT Technology with 1024MB DDR SDRAM
at 400 MHz, a 128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card, and a 120GB SATA
hard drive. I run a very intensive application/game that is CPU intensive
(Flight Sim 2004 with several add-ons). I'm confused about what the ideal
pagefile size should be. Somewhere along the way I got an initial setting
of 1536 and a max of 3072. Does that sound about right, or is there a
better configuration for my set up? Or, should I just let the system manage
the pagefile? Thanks for helping a medium knowledge computer user!!!

 

[Mike Hall]

I have always let Windows manage the pagefile.. subject to having enough
drive free space, this setting works well..

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following article by Alex Nichol:

"Virtual Memory in Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

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[Chuck Dreier]

Will,
The article didn't make too much sense to me. Do you agree that I should
just let the System handle the page file and be done with it?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Yes, I let the systems here handle the Pagefile - and don't have any
problems.

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[Chuck Dreier]

I'll let Windows handle it. Thanks Mike and Will for your help.