Moving paging file to outer tracks

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by ChampionLLY

get as much ram as u can & put "no page file"..
my laptop n desktop running @ 1Gb each, both "no page file"

Hehe.. I don't recommend you do that. Some applications require a paging file to function.

Besides, having a paging file won't sap your computer's performance. Don't be worried if you still see Windows XP use hundreds of MB of virtual memory, even with 2GB of RAM.

Windows XP pre-emptively copies stuff from memory into the paging file, just in case it needs to flush some memory for use by other applications.

Besides, if you run out of memory, Windows XP will still create a paging file. But this will be a temporary and largely fragmented paging file. Bad for performance.

[ChampionLLY]

Originally Posted by jamotto

Just curious, how many apps on average can you run at the same time with said config?

wad do i run?

winxp pro sp2
catalyst display driver
msn messenger
acer epowermanagement
nhc
intel WLAN software
IE7beat2/firefox
bitcomet
wmp10/winamp

sometimes:
photoshop cs2
pplive
dap

[ChampionLLY]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Hehe.. I don't recommend you do that. Some applications require a paging file to function.

Besides, having a paging file won't sap your computer's performance. Don't be worried if you still see Windows XP use hundreds of MB of virtual memory, even with 2GB of RAM.

Windows XP pre-emptively copies stuff from memory into the paging file, just in case it needs to flush some memory for use by other applications.

Besides, if you run out of memory, Windows XP will still create a paging file. But this will be a temporary and largely fragmented paging file. Bad for performance.

nah, i know wad i'm doing...

at first i did get error msg saying "virtual mem too low",
but as long as i dun overload my sys with apps i dun use,
it nv appear again..
at least not in the past 3mth... ;P