iampedro Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 I have 12 gig hd, 600mhz piii, 320 meg of sdram and I was wondering what should I set my virtual memory at? I currently have it at 256. Should it be more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 set it to like 500-600megs and you'll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iampedro Posted January 31, 2002 Author Share Posted January 31, 2002 Should I just let windows assign it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 256 is fine all you need to do is run the task manager all day while you do what it is you do on your computer you can also run a RAM manager if you want and at the end of the day look and see if your Commit Charge (K) has exceeded or tied or came w/in a few bytes of the limit. or take a look at how much ram you have left or see how much the pagefile was being used with the graph when you get up past 300 mb of ram that 1.5x RAM for pagefile size rule is redundant and doesnt even need to be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dfx Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 I let windows assign it and no problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiNZ Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 Defrag your Hard drive ( still needed in XP ) Set a fixed swap file at 250 mb , and you should have no problems. A fixed is way faster especially when your hard drive starts to full up. It avoids a fragmented swap file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanAlex Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 A fixed size swap file (v.ram) is a good way to go for performance , if you have enough free space you should set it yourself after defragmenting the harddrive, if you have 2 HDs put the file in a HD different from the one where you have windows for better performance in most cases. The size used to have a rule of 1.5X your RAM, but this is usually not necessary on systems with 256 + RAM. Personally I have 512 DDR 266 MHZ RAM and a swap file of 256 in a harddrive that works as storage, different from the one where I have windows and software but just has fast......Its a breeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0sit0 Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 Interesting conversation ;), now... how can u put your swap file in another fixed disk? or another HD? Help!:ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanAlex Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 Right click my computer, properties....look for advanced, performance (something like that) , virtual memory, set the old disk file size to 0 min and 0 max , and set a file that has the same min and max size in the other disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0sit0 Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 THANK YOU!!!! :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanAlex Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 No Problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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