Virtual Memory

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Strider

Hi all,

I noticed that many of you have changed the cache size. I recently
upgraded to 1.5gb of RAM.

What would you suggest my Virtual Memory be?
 
You are kidding right? 1.5G of RAM and you are worried
about Virtual(pagefile) memory? I doubt you will ever need
any. Still if you insist on altering the settings I
suggest you use "System managed size" I have 512MB of RAM
and only ever use about 150MB of Pafefile on the most
visually intensive apps. Keep smiling.
 
The Unknown P proclaimed...
You are kidding right? 1.5G of RAM and you are worried
about Virtual(pagefile) memory? I doubt you will ever need
any. Still if you insist on altering the settings I
suggest you use "System managed size" I have 512MB of RAM
and only ever use about 150MB of Pafefile on the most
visually intensive apps. Keep smiling.
Click to expand...

No, I read something that said that Virtual Memory is used even if you
have lots of RAM. Now if I were to fix the size to something small or
disable it entirely it should improve performance.
 
Unless you have a very small hard drive, there is little to
gain from having a smaller pagefile, but having no pagefile
will often cause Windows to crash or programs to not run
because they will expect to have a pagefile (even if they
don't use it).

The definitive article http://www.aumha.org/a/xpvm.php


| The Unknown P proclaimed...
|
| > You are kidding right? 1.5G of RAM and you are worried
| > about Virtual(pagefile) memory? I doubt you will ever
need
| > any. Still if you insist on altering the settings I
| > suggest you use "System managed size" I have 512MB of
RAM
| > and only ever use about 150MB of Pafefile on the most
| > visually intensive apps. Keep smiling.
|
| No, I read something that said that Virtual Memory is used
even if you
| have lots of RAM. Now if I were to fix the size to
something small or
| disable it entirely it should improve performance.
|
| --
| Email - scott @ stri dot tk
| Site - www.stri.tk
| Forum - www.stri-forum.tk
|
| --
| Why did I get the bum deal?
 
If not, increase it, the system will only use what it needs,
even if you set it at 2GB, it would only use the amount
needed. It is just the amount of space that COULD be used
and it is reserved space.

Open task manager [ctrl/alt/del] and watch the performance
for a while to see how much you are using and set the amount
25% greater???


| Jim Macklin proclaimed...
|
| > No problem.
|
| I've set it to 100mbs I think that should be enough.
|
| --
| Email - scott @ stri dot tk
| Site - www.stri.tk
| Forum - www.stri-forum.tk
|
| --
| Why did I get the bum deal?
 
Jim Macklin proclaimed...
Open task manager [ctrl/alt/del] and watch the performance
for a while to see how much you are using and set the amount
25% greater???
Click to expand...

Will do.
 
Strider said:
I noticed that many of you have changed the cache size. I recently
upgraded to 1.5gb of RAM.

What would you suggest my Virtual Memory be?
Click to expand...

The size of page file needed is very much dependent on your work load.
You need to have *some* but the initial size can be small - say 100MB.
Leave the Max high (say at 1GB) to allow headroom. But setting it to
some multiple of RAM size is absurd, and stands the matter on its head.
Read up at www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm
 
Strider said:
Open task manager [ctrl/alt/del] and watch the performance
for a while to see how much you are using and set the amount
25% greater???
Click to expand...

Will do.
Click to expand...

Task manager is misleading. Keep an eye on the actual size of the file
(pagefile.sys - you need to have Folder Options - View set to show
Hidden files, and *not* Hide Protected mode ones. Should it grow,
increase the initial size - but it seems very unlikely on that much RAM.
But keep the Max high so it *could* grow, and to allow some space for
the addresses in VM that never get used and which would otherwise lock
out RAM to no purpose
 
Thanks, I'll change my link.


message | "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm>
wrote:
|
| >
| >The definitive article http://www.aumha.org/a/xpvm.php
|
| Thanks for the compliment Jim - but please make any
references to pages
| on that site of Jim Eshelman's be to the .htm file, not
the .php,
| Otherwise sidebars get lost - and if he re-structures
there is no
| guarantee things will be found.
|
| So for this - www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm
|
|
| --
| Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
| Bournemouth, U.K. (e-mail address removed)8E8L.org (remove the D8
bit)
 
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