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How much virtual memory should I allocate?

post #1 of 15
5/2/05 at 4:54pm
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I just got my 1gb stick of ram (for 1.25gb total), should I decrease the virtual memory now? Would it be beneficial to, or would it end up making things slower? It's at 768mb initial size and 1536mb max right now.
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post #2 of 15
5/2/05 at 5:01pm
I have mine both set at 768 max and min.
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post #3 of 15
5/2/05 at 5:25pm
I'll stick with mine also
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post #4 of 15
5/2/05 at 7:13pm
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Originally Posted by boppo
I have mine both set at 768 max and min.
WTH? you got 2GB you can set your MAX to way more....

i got 1918MB for min-max
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post #5 of 15
5/2/05 at 7:52pm
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but doesn't virtual memory slow things down a lot? you want to minimize it, but not cross the line into running out of space...right?
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post #6 of 15
5/2/05 at 8:09pm
i think its backwards. i'm not too sure. i took a nap in class yesterday when they were talking about it
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post #7 of 15
5/2/05 at 8:14pm
u got 2gb ram...you should disable it altogether unless you are an extreme power user.
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post #8 of 15
5/2/05 at 9:45pm
if you disable the page file completely, some programs will refuse to run. If you have massive amounts of ram, having around 512 allocated for page is still a good idea
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post #9 of 15
5/2/05 at 10:27pm
You absolutely need VM in windows XP, its not designed to run without it. In fact, XP is designed to make the best use of the page file, increasing system performance. As for the optimal setting, Microsoft reccomends the max for XP to be 12megs more than your physical RAM (so 2060). Other sources reccomend 3072/4096 for the min/max with 2gb of physical ram.
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post #10 of 15
5/2/05 at 11:35pm
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Originally Posted by Xarthan
WTH? you got 2GB you can set your MAX to way more....

i got 1918MB for min-max
what for?
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post #11 of 15
5/2/05 at 11:37pm
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Originally Posted by gollum
u got 2gb ram...you should disable it altogether unless you are an extreme power user.
that not what bill gates says.
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post #12 of 15
5/3/05 at 12:04am
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Originally Posted by iwantthemango
You absolutely need VM in windows XP, its not designed to run without it. In fact, XP is designed to make the best use of the page file, increasing system performance. As for the optimal setting, Microsoft reccomends the max for XP to be 12megs more than your physical RAM (so 2060). Other sources reccomend 3072/4096 for the min/max with 2gb of physical ram.
Actually M$ recommended VM/PF is 1.5x your ram
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post #13 of 15
5/3/05 at 8:40am
Theoretically, with more than 1GB of ram, you can almost turn the paging file off completely, but that's not the best practice. You should always allocate a small size, nothing less than 512MB IMO.

You should always have a set swap file size (min and max identical) to avoid file fragmentation.
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post #14 of 15
5/3/05 at 9:45am
I have had mine diasabled for well over a year now...not one problem,crash, or refusal to run. You do what you feel is right.....
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post #15 of 15
5/3/05 at 10:52am
with my 15-20 windows open and 2 or 3 vmware machines i need my pagefile.. heh
Im thinkin of makin a swap partition and formatting it fat16 or fat32 and using some partition manager to move the partition before the boot partition so the swap file is at the beginning of the drive (all these defrag programs dont put it there no matter what i do). Think it`ll make much difference? 1.5gb min/max btw
Will test the moving partition and makin sure it still boots, in vmware of course. Must say i like vmware5 better than 4.5, memory/swap usage lot better.
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