gavino said:
I heard to set max and min size custom to the reccomended mb size as
custom is best way to optimize the swap space for xp.
Anyone feel differently?
If your computer is using the paging file so extensively that any
optimization could have a detectable impact on overall performance
then what you really need to do is to add more RAM so as to reduce, or
perhaps even eliminate, the need to actually move active memory
content from RAM to the paging file and then to subsequently move it
back in when that content is again required.
Most of what is reported as "PF Usage" by Windows Task Manager is in
fact "phantom" usage, consisting primarily of the unused portions of
memory allocation requests. By design, Windows maps these to the
paging file, leaving the RAM for only those items that are actually
being used. This phantom usage involves no actual hard drive
activity and therefore there is nothing that any optimization could
possibly do that would improve performance with regard to this usage.
By way of illustration, at this moment on my own system Task Manager
is reporting PF Usage as 455 mb. However the actual amount of active
memory content currently in the paging file is only 38 mb and the
physical size of my paging file is 80 mb, which is my specified
minimum.
So follow the advice in the article by the late Alex Nichol that Will
Denny referred you to.
Good luck
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