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Virtual Memory
I was just wondering what is the best setting for my virtual memory. Should
i set min and max the same or should i let windows manage it. My Specs are :- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 512 DDR 3200 ram 160 GHz H/D Cheers in advance Mike Collins |
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Mike wrote:
I was just wondering what is the best setting for my virtual memory. Should i set min and max the same or should i let windows manage it. My Specs are :- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 512 DDR 3200 ram 160 GHz H/D That's one hell of a fast hard drive you have ;o) The best tactic is to create a 1 or 2 gig partition on your hard drive, and use it just for your virtual memory. Keeps it nice and defragged. |
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Tom wrote:
Mike wrote: I was just wondering what is the best setting for my virtual memory. Should i set min and max the same or should i let windows manage it. My Specs are :- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 512 DDR 3200 ram 160 GHz H/D That's one hell of a fast hard drive you have ;o) The best tactic is to create a 1 or 2 gig partition on your hard drive, and use it just for your virtual memory. Keeps it nice and defragged. What is the advantage to doing that? I have some unpartitioned space on my hd that I could allocate for a paging file....would I notice any difference by doing so? 1.4Ghz Tualatin 384Mb ram 120Gb, 8Mb cache HD Thanks..... |
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BalloonKnot wrote:
Tom wrote: The best tactic is to create a 1 or 2 gig partition on your hard drive, and use it just for your virtual memory. Keeps it nice and defragged. What is the advantage to doing that? I have some unpartitioned space on my hd that I could allocate for a paging file....would I notice any difference by doing so? 1.4Ghz Tualatin 384Mb ram 120Gb, 8Mb cache HD If your page file is on the same partition as your OS and data files, over time it fragments, and slows your system down. When you defrag the drive you'll notice the page file is marked as "unmoveable", and won't get defragged. To be honest, I don't know how much difference you'd actually notice, but it's one of the many "good practice" things that all add up to a smooth, slick system. HTH |
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How do i actually put the pagefile onto another partition ?
Is it when i set the size i also set the drive it will be located on. "Tom" wrote in message news BalloonKnot wrote: Tom wrote: The best tactic is to create a 1 or 2 gig partition on your hard drive, and use it just for your virtual memory. Keeps it nice and defragged. What is the advantage to doing that? I have some unpartitioned space on my hd that I could allocate for a paging file....would I notice any difference by doing so? 1.4Ghz Tualatin 384Mb ram 120Gb, 8Mb cache HD If your page file is on the same partition as your OS and data files, over time it fragments, and slows your system down. When you defrag the drive you'll notice the page file is marked as "unmoveable", and won't get defragged. To be honest, I don't know how much difference you'd actually notice, but it's one of the many "good practice" things that all add up to a smooth, slick system. HTH |
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"Mike" wrote:
I was just wondering what is the best setting for my virtual memory. Should i set min and max the same or should i let windows manage it. My Specs are :- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 512 DDR 3200 ram 160 GHz H/D Personally, I set the min and max to the same size (1.5 x RAM); because this keeps it from being fragmented. Remember to go and change it if you add more memory. Jon |
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Jon Danniken wrote:
"Mike" wrote: I was just wondering what is the best setting for my virtual memory. Should i set min and max the same or should i let windows manage it. My Specs are :- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 512 DDR 3200 ram 160 GHz H/D Personally, I set the min and max to the same size (1.5 x RAM); because this keeps it from being fragmented. Remember to go and change it if you add more memory. I'd just set it to a gig and leave it at that, regardless of whether you add more memory down the line. I have 512MB and a 1GB pagefile. If (read: 'when') I add more RAM my pagefile will stay the same size. It's best to disable vitual memory first, reboot if it tells you to, then defrag. *Then* set up your pagefile min and max the same. That way, with any luck, it'll be one contigous file. If you don't do the defrag stage (without VM enabled) it'll just allocate the space as it finds it, which could be all over the drive. Also, ideally, this shold be done immediately after initial install of the OS, before installation of applications, as then the pagefile will be closer to the beginning of the drive (inside of the platters) and this is the fastest portion of the drive. However, I'm not sure if you'd notice the difference, it's the ideal situation and it's the way I do it on new installs. However, when I 'fine-tune' existing installs I just go ahead and do what I've listed above. There is no point on having it on a seperate partition. The only advantage would be that you could format the pagefile partition using FAT32 as it's faster than NTFS (I used to do this) but then the HDD heads have to travel further to get to the pagefile partition (from the OS partition) which offsets the advantage. I tried making a 1GB Fat 32 partition first (pre-install) so it was on the fastest part of the drive and more likely to be close to the OS files once but then XP insisted on calling that C: partition and the OS went on D: partition. Call me old fashioned but I like my OS on C:. g. Also, you can't use the whole partition, only about 95% of it. (Don't ask me why, ask MS). Then, sometimes, XP has the annoying habit of telling you periodically that the 'drive' (partition) is full and to delete some files to free up space. PITA. The ideal situation would be a FAT32 partition on a different physical drive, of equal or faster speed to the OS drive, on a different IDE channel. However, I doubt you'd notice the difference to the first described, simplest method. As you can tell, I've spent some time trying to optimise some slow machines. :-) -- ~misfit~ |
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Mike wrote:
How do i actually put the pagefile onto another partition ? Is it when i set the size i also set the drive it will be located on. Yep, you get the choice of which drive/partition to put the PF on. Read my post further down dude. Don't put the pagefile on a drive that is slower than your main drive, or even a partition that is at the end of your main drive (it's slower). -- ~misfit~ "Tom" wrote in message news BalloonKnot wrote: Tom wrote: The best tactic is to create a 1 or 2 gig partition on your hard drive, and use it just for your virtual memory. Keeps it nice and defragged. What is the advantage to doing that? I have some unpartitioned space on my hd that I could allocate for a paging file....would I notice any difference by doing so? 1.4Ghz Tualatin 384Mb ram 120Gb, 8Mb cache HD If your page file is on the same partition as your OS and data files, over time it fragments, and slows your system down. When you defrag the drive you'll notice the page file is marked as "unmoveable", and won't get defragged. To be honest, I don't know how much difference you'd actually notice, but it's one of the many "good practice" things that all add up to a smooth, slick system. HTH |
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 16:43:40 +0100 Letting slip the dogs of war "Mike"
wrote : I was just wondering what is the best setting for my virtual memory. Should i set min and max the same or should i let windows manage it. My Specs are :- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 512 DDR 3200 ram 160 GHz H/D Cheers in advance Mike Collins Click here, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/easy.html There is no advantage to having the swapfile on another partition just like there's no fixed formula for setting the correct minimum number for,"Your" usage.A maximum setting is not needed.This changes in WinXP/Win2k. HTH -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html email shepATpartyheld.de Free songs to download and,"BURN" :O) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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