killing virtual memory under 2kpro?

[dinkster9]

going bonkers here, i have a gig of the best ram in the world. There is no reason to use a swap file to hard drive when i got enough ram for anything the computer could want to do. I tried to "lower" the virtual memory amount, but then the computer always gives me a pop up window stating that the amount of vitual memory is critically low and windows is going to "automatically" make it higher.

Should i just put in a large number and not worry about it or is there a way to just fully disable virtual memory?!?

if you have a gig of ram, disabling vitural memory isn't a bad thing is it?

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[CapNjacK]

I have a gig of memory as well and I know I've gone into Vmem at times. I would suggest leaving some Virtual memory the amount is up to you. Only thing I would suggest is setting the min and the max to the same value. This stops the page file from ever expanding dynamically which cause defragmentation.
My own settings are Min/max 1280. I have 1024MB of physical memory.

 

[dinkster9]

anyone else, i have a gig of memory, there is no reason for my computer to be using a swap file (virtual memory) on the hard drive...(am i wrong about this?) How can i disable the warning that my vmem size is too small, or just disable vmem all together?

while we are on the subject, anyone know how to create a ram drive under windows 2000? i remember doing it on a mac and doing it under win98...Say i wanted to load an entire cd into ram so it never had to access the hard drive...

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[jlanka]

Actually you're mistaken. The computer will always use the swapfile no matter how much RAM you have installed. Even servers with 2 GB's of RAM still swap things out to the swapfile.

While a system could be run without the swap file I wouldn't recommend it. Just leave it set to the default windows makes it on install (1.5 times the amount of RAM) and don't worry about it.




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[dinkster9]

well, i just find it really annoying that i have a gig of ram and my computer is say utilizing 300megs of it, and keeps asking me to increase the size of my vmem file. If i'm not even using 1/2 of my ram, why does windows need to keep using my hard drive to store files in instead of ram???

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[jlanka]

<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/expertzone/columns/mcfedries/03june16.asp" target="_new">here is an interesting article on the Microsoft website</A>

also check out <A HREF="http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php" target="_new">this article</A>

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[dinkster9]

AWWWW....now those are helpful links. thanks!!!!

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