512 RAM any ideas on swap file settings?

[Whitedog]

Uhmmm, if your running 9X and have that much memory, just Disable Virtual Memory!

In a WinMe machine, I had 256 megs ram, disabled VM, everything was running great until I loaded Deus Ex, It wouldn't load, said "not enough VM"

I upped it to 384 megs ram (still VM disabled, and Everything ran Great! Even played Deus Ex! and Very fast BTW.

If you have 512 megs ram and set ConservativeSwapFile=1 and set VM to let windows manage it, I can't believe it worked worse.. I'd double check my settings..

At least try Disabling VM. You shouldn't even need it at all with 512 ram.

 

[superbaby]

<< make a RAMDISK out of one of the 256mb sticks, devote the ramdisk to the swap file >>


Sounds good in theory but it actually isn't. I tried this as well and it doesn't work. I BSOD'd and I had to reinstall Win2k. Apparently the memory is managed well enough that you don't need to do this. Just set your swap file to 100mb min/max and let it run. Anything below that and you'll start getting alerts that your pagefile is too small.

 

[subhuman]

Interesting topic.

I just added another 256meg stick, all my timings at 2,2,2, Strong, all the tightest timings. The extra 256megs makes a noticable speed improvement, I'd estimate large programs load at least 10-20% faster than before, and I can load more programs at once.

I have my swapfile set to 600megs=min=max, and I don't have that &quot;[386enh]ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1&quot; setting in my system.ini. I'm running WinME.

My roomie has 768megs (temporarily) on a Win98SE machine, and it made a difference from 256megs he was at before... we use similiar settings. Are we not noticing something you are, or are your settings somehow wrong?

 

[xtreme2k]

<< make a RAMDISK out of one of the 256mb sticks, devote the ramdisk to the swap file >>


this is the MOST STUPID THING TO DO