I have 2GB of kingston memory 3200. (4 X 512 sticks)

If I changed my MAX virtual memory alocation to something like 3GB instead of 512MB which is the current setting, do you think it would make a difference?

Thanks in advance.

8/23/2005 10:14:35 PM

No, because windows does what it wants.

And giving yourself, more, virtual memory does squat, except for increasing the paging table, which is not cool.

[Edited on August 23, 2005 at 10:19 PM. Reason : w]

8/23/2005 10:17:53 PM

You actually want to cut down on your virtural memory so that widows will use your RAM better and you'll minimize file fragmentation. There is a lot of debate as to what's the correct virtural memory settings. Google search virtural memory settings, do some reading, and make a well educated and informed decision.

8/23/2005 10:18:06 PM

if i had 2gb of physical ram i'd have a system managed pagefile which will take care of it and probably allocate 768mb of memory or something.

shit, i'd try NO PAGEFILE and make sure the stuff i ran didn't end up needing extra memory and crashing.

8/23/2005 10:18:24 PM

Quote :

"oogle search virtural memory settings, do some reading, and make a well educated and informed decision."

i'm finding some great articles.

my problem is that i need to run a couple instances of an application for a project that requires 3.5GB

[Edited on August 23, 2005 at 10:25 PM. Reason : =]

8/23/2005 10:24:14 PM

What program?

8/24/2005 12:17:02 AM

Isn't the rule of thumb like twice the amount of virtual memory that you have of RAM?

And I'm with bous ... for your normal everyday usage, turn it off. When you are developing, partition a part of your hard drive just for the virtual memory. So far as I know (and somebody please point out my ignorance if I'm wrong), the only "gain" you'll get by increasing the size is saving Windows the trouble later of trying to figure out what to do when it loses all RAM AND virtual memory. For the size of the applications your running, it may be a consierable gain.

8/24/2005 8:39:29 AM