Side effect of Turning Off Virtual Memory

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When IE downloads a file (I'm assuming you're using IE), it downloads it to
a temporary file in the IE temp directory and then copies that temporary
file to the destination directory under the proper name.

I suppose it's in this copy operation that you're running into problems.

Turning off virtual memory is a really Bad Idea(tm). You're going to run
into a lot of odd problems. You're also going to end up hurting performance.
I know that may not seem to make sense, but there's a lot of optimizations
in Windows to take advantage of the combination of lots of memory and a
large swap file. As long as your swap file is contiguous (not fragmented)
and your hard drive is fast (7200rpms), you'll end up seeing better
performance with the swap file enabled.

Pete
 
I'm running windows XP Pro. I have 512Mg Ram. I decided to turn off
virtual memory to increase performance. I don't need to use virtual
memmory because my RAM is enough.

However a side effect I have noticed is this: When i download a large
file, the download completes but the file is truncated at about 30 mgs
i think. Is there a reason for this? Even though i have enough ram to
store the entire file. I even tried to use a downloading program such
as Getright and etc. It didn't work. I don't want to use them anyways.

Does windows really need to use the VM for downloading these files? Is
there an option i can change that will fix this.

Thanks

Mark
 
When IE downloads a file (I'm assuming you're using IE), it downloads it to
a temporary file in the IE temp directory and then copies that temporary
file to the destination directory under the proper name.

I suppose it's in this copy operation that you're running into problems.

Turning off virtual memory is a really Bad Idea(tm). You're going to run
into a lot of odd problems. You're also going to end up hurting performance.
I know that may not seem to make sense, but there's a lot of optimizations
in Windows to take advantage of the combination of lots of memory and a
large swap file. As long as your swap file is contiguous (not fragmented)
and your hard drive is fast (7200rpms), you'll end up seeing better
performance with the swap file enabled.

Pete
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Hmm. Well you are right, that doesn't make sence. Virtual memory is
just memory on the hard drive instead of on the faster RAM stick. If
you could back up your claim that turning off virtual memory is a bad
idea I would apreciate it - either by some microsoft article or by
making sence out of it

But let's say you are right. Couldn't I then create a Ram drive of
about 100MGs and store my virtual memmory there? Will that be the best
of both worlds?

Mark
 
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