Virtual Memory & can it be turned OFF?

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I have a system with 2gb of ddr2 533 system ram would this be enough to turn
off virtual memory? and in doing so, would this hinder or increase windows
performance?
And more to the point is it safe to do so?
 
deepaintpish said:
I have a system with 2gb of ddr2 533 system ram would this be enough
to turn off virtual memory? and in doing so, would this hinder or
increase windows performance?
And more to the point is it safe to do so?
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Do not turn it off. There is never any value to turning off paging, and it
can be detrimental. Even if you never use the page file, having it there
unused doesn't hurt you..

Read the late MVP Alex Nichol's article, "Virtual Memory in Windows XP," at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm
 
I agree with the others that you should leave "virtual" memory (page file)
turned on, Windows will likely fuss at you if you turn it off.
However you might reduce the size of it if you want to free up a little
drive space... say maybe 100-500MB. I have 1GB RAM installed on my desktop
with the Page File set as system managed. It usually stays down around
300-360MB. But then I don't do any video editing or much that requires huge
amounts of memory.

Hope this is helpful!

Best regards,
Richard in Va.
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deepaintpish said:
I have a system with 2gb of ddr2 533 system ram would this be enough
to turn off virtual memory? and in doing so, would this hinder or
increase windows performance?
And more to the point is it safe to do so?
Click to expand...

Yes, you can turn it off. Yes, it is safe to do so.

There are, however, adverse consequences to so doing.
 
deepaintpish said:
I have a system with 2gb of ddr2 533 system ram would this be enough to
turn
off virtual memory? and in doing so, would this hinder or increase windows
performance?
And more to the point is it safe to do so?
Click to expand...
Windows XP is a virtual memory system. This is inherent in its design. With
that much memory, and with system managed size of the pagefile, you might
find that the system never needs to create this file.
But this by no means converts XP from a virtual memory system, and not
having a pagefile may have little if any effect on performance. You see,
all addresses in a virtual system are in fact virtual.
However, as the CPU can only work with physical address, all addresses need
to be checked to see if they refer to a physical location or not.
Jim
 
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I have a system with 2gb of ddr2 533 system ram would this be enough to turn
off virtual memory? and in doing so, would this hinder or increase windows
performance?
Click to expand...

NO, do not turn off virtural memory.
 
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